This is a semi-autobiographical novella about artistic pursuit and discovery. During the beginning of the 20th century, the possible connection between Paul Cézanne’s art and Henri Bergson’s philosophy was once a legend. However nowadays, few people mention this anymore. When our protagonist left his former career and returned to school in the 1990s, he fell into the world of art. While studying Western art theory, he was fascinated by the parallels between Bergson and the art he researched. Our main character followed the spiritual guidance of Cézanne and his successors, Matisse and Picasso, and devoted himself to tracing the prospect of this century-old legend. Through many struggles and endless toil, he resolved the mystery in Cézanne’s various paintings (e.g., cardplayers, smokers, still-lifes, mountains, portraits, bathers, etc.). He rediscovered Cézanne’s paintings in detail and found that Cézanne incorporated three Bergsonian figures (vertical and hor
