Tolstoi

O meu livro do ano é Guerra e Paz (ed. Penguin Classics, trad. Anthony Briggs). Comecei a lê-lo em Abril, sem pressas, e vou continuar em 2009. Oitocentas páginas volvidas, em tempo de balanços, retrospectivas e repisando os porquês do que correu mal:

«A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced that he lost because he made a mistake, and he goes back to the opening gambits to find what the mistake was, forgetting that his every move throughout the whole game involved similar errors, no move being perfect. The mistake that he concentrates on attracts his attention only because it was exploited by his opponent.»

(volume III, parte II, capítulo 7)