I am the one who creates the waves of life
Everyone likes and loves alone
The camellia tree swayed briefly in the wind.
Just think of me for 10 minutes
The scenery of myself that I pretended not to know all this time
Think about the end once a day
Evidence of a Good Day
Food that covered me on a cold day
There's only one thing I wish for, to see you for a long time
Is it really goodbye now?
I feel like climbing the ridge is more than just one person.
I wish I could tell someone firmly
Look outside, it's the first snow.
One day, it will not disappear, but will remain
Where do you want to go with your packed lunch?
Radio in the back window seat
Why are you alone? It's okay.
If you ask me why I write, I will answer that I write because I am alone.
The reason you made me warm
I engraved a cat on my knife.
We have the ability to change course at the moment of need.
You are lost in your own world
Things that can't be helped can't be helped
Move to you
We met on a chair and parted on a chair
The inside of the beyond that I want to look into
We are ultimately sad because of our lack.
My heart beats once a day
If only we were each just a few raindrops
The code name is poet
Every night, like someone who has just finished a trip, good night
Cherry blossoms are blooming. Cherry blossoms are falling.
Draw the shape of love with a picture
The sound of people, the signal of love
A word to start loving
You will meet the person you want to meet.
We also have to choose when we talk about what kind of person we are.
Leave me in a state of ventilation
We will each live like that
A Midsummer Night's Concert
So that your mind doesn't deteriorate rapidly
Less drunk and less lonely
That's right, neither of them is bad.

Things that only I can do and have
It is only possible if you are alone.
“Why are you alone? I’m fine.”

『Attraction』 and 『The Wind Blows, I Like You』, travel essay collections that capture exotic landscapes from over 100 countries around the world, and 『The Person Next to Me』, which contains stories of landscapes and people encountered while traveling across the eight provinces of Korea.
Author Lee Byeong-ryul, who has been loved by readers for his three volumes of prose, is publishing a new prose collection, “Alone to Alone.”
This is a new collection of essays published five years after completing the so-called 'travel trilogy'.
The author has been traveling diligently for over ten years, or even longer, publishing three volumes of travel essays.
Thanks to this, countless readers have been thrilled many times while reading the author's books, fallen in love many times, and packed their bags and left for somewhere many times.

Even after that, the author, unable to help himself with his innate traveler's genes and his love for people, continued to seek out new travel experiences.
This trip, unlike any other trip I've taken before, is a wasteland with no specific place names and no locations on the map.
That's right, a journey to meet countless lonely people scattered around the world.
A place where you can't travel everywhere even if you walk for a very long time.
The traveling writer is also alone.

In this book, ‘Alone to Alone’, author Lee Byeong-ryul refers to himself as a ‘lone person’.
That's because I've spent a lot of time alone and I've used that time more richly than anyone else.
In the book, the author is naturally alone, traveling alone, walking alone, and spending precious time alone in silence.
A person who creates time alone even when he is among people.
As a writer who likes people, his gaze is always directed towards people, but among them, his heart is more drawn to those who are alone.
I am curious about the abundant time they spend raising them.

If the people and scenery encountered during travel were the main stories of previous works, this book focuses more on the 'alone' self and the 'alone' others.
At that point, there will also be an intersection of 'us' that touches each other.
Because of this, I focus more on spaces where I can be alone rather than specific places like travel destinations.
These are places where we are often alone, such as on a hike, in a small log cabin, in a studio, in a guesthouse, or on a train or bus going to the final destination.
Also, meeting people who are good at taking care of themselves, records of my first overseas trip, and looking back on my 'firsts' by looking at broadcast scripts from when I worked as a radio writer...
The book is filled with detailed records of times when I was able to deepen and enjoy myself solely because I was alone.


These scenes and thoughts, combined with the rich photographs that capture the author's unique perspective, create a feeling as if one is present in the space.
As you read, pause between sentences, look between the lines, and think, the photos in the square frames will carefully speak to you and fill the space in your thoughts.
In this way, the writer and the reader will be alone with the bookshelf between them, but there will come a moment when their stopped footsteps and gazes will pass each other.

We will each live like that

People who are alone are inevitably faced with many questions.
Simple questions like "Why are they alone?" and "How are they alone?" surround them, and they are left feeling embarrassed and having to come up with appropriate answers.
However, the author simply passes over these questions as if they were Zen questions.
“Why are you alone? I’m fine.”
Even if we are alone now, there will come a time when we will be placed among people, and even if we are not alone now, there will inevitably be a time when we will be alone.
Therefore, I don't necessarily think that you, the questioner, may find yourself in such a situation someday.
It is clear that those who can make good use of their alone time are also good at managing their own solitude.
Also, we who are alone know very well that emphasizing 'alone' does not mean ignoring 'togetherness'.

After closing the bookcase, you will feel completely alone and lonely.
You might even feel like you've met a writer alone.
After closing the book, what comes is loneliness, fulfillment, comfort, or a new feeling that is not something else, and it will be different for each person.
Because we all live our lives with countless hearts.
I will just hand over the book to another person as if shaking hands with them.