Contemporary Portugal in Mário de Carvalho's O que eu ouvi na barrica das maçãs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The crónica (literally “chronicle,” from the Greek khronos ) is a Portuguese-language journalistic piece published as a column. It offers a particularly unique record of the present time from an eminently personal perspective, allowing us to learn some aspects of daily life that shaped a given space and time. As an opinion and eclectic text, these columns also take on a pragmatic dimension, seeking to generate some sort of impact on the reader.Mário de Carvalho is a writer who reflects on the Portuguese national identity in a lucid, ironic, and sometimes caustic way. From novels and short stories to dramatic texts and essays, his work represents and thinks about contemporary Portugal and its fragilities and challenges. The crónicas Mário de Carvalho has written for the press are no different in this regard, as he explores several aspects of Portugal’s social, cultural, and political identity.This chapter aims to analyze Mário de Carvalho’s O que eu ouvi na barrica das maçãs (2019), which compiles several of the columns he wrote for the newspapers Público and Jornal de Letras , and which won the 2020 Grand Prize for Crónicas and Dispersed Literary Texts awarded by the Portuguese Writers’ Association (APE). We aim to discuss the aspects of identity Mário de Carvalho highlights and comments on, covering areas such as the society, media, politics, and writing world of a given space (Portugal) and time (1980s and 90s).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".