Jang Seok-ju: The sun is a star that rises in the morning.

The solitary and brilliant lives of fifteen figures occupying the deepest part of poet Jang Seok-ju's study. This is an essay on 15 intellectuals from East and West, past and present, who guided Jang Seok-ju from his wandering youth into the writer he is today. Just as a lighthouse guides a ship drifting in a dark sea, there are beings who cast the light of enlightenment upon our lives, which are scattered with misfortune and unhappiness. In this book, the author introduces the figures who sustained his life and sends encouragement to today's youth facing a harsh reality. Encompassing writers such as Tolstoy, Camus, and Kafka; saints like Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Buddha; revolutionaries and thinkers such as Nietzsche, Che Guevara, Beauvoir, and Scott Nearing; and painter Frida Kahlo and entrepreneur Steve Jobs, the author sheds light on those who did not succumb to the vicissitudes of life and carved out their own destinies. This collection is a compilation of refined and expanded writings centered on the figures the author introduced one by one in *Monthly JoongAng* from December 2015 to November 2016. The life of each individual offers enlightenment to those seeking a true life, wisdom to those hungry for knowledge, and empathetic comfort to those immersed in suffering. As we follow the footsteps of these individuals who led the world's intellect as artists of their own lives, we too will each come to harbor a map of the stars within our hearts.

Korean title: 태양은 아침에 뜨는 별이다

Korean author: 장석주

Korean publisher: 현암사

ISBN-13: 9788932319438