https://claudiaramosmonteiro.com/blog/cultura/ Recent content in cultura on Cláudia Ramos Monteiro Hugo -- gohugo.io pt-pt Copyright © 2026, Cláudia Ramos Monteiro. Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://claudiaramosmonteiro.com/gr%C3%A2ndola-vila-morena/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://claudiaramosmonteiro.com/gr%C3%A2ndola-vila-morena/ 50 years ago today, the Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal came to an end through a military coup. To signal that the coup was underway, the song “Grândola, Vila Morena” by José Afonso was played on the radio in the early hours of April 25.1 It instantly became a symbol of freedom (“We’re doing this so that people don’t have to leave the country for what they write, say or think,”2) and to this day, it defies polarization among Portuguese: last night, after we had dinner near Terreiro do Paço, a friend of mine from across the pond witnessed an impromptu and electrifying performance of it on a metro train carriage as one passenger started singing and everybody joined her. https://claudiaramosmonteiro.com/memorials-to-love-and-loss-through-millenia/ Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://claudiaramosmonteiro.com/memorials-to-love-and-loss-through-millenia/ In Glasgow I learned about mortuary sculptures in shared tombs. One really old example is an Etruscan sarcophagus lid from about 300 BC depicting a husband and wife “on a bed with pillows, beneath crinkled sheets, in a loving embrace,”12 — the memory of a happy marriage immortalized in volcanic tuff.3 A few days later, I visited the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, where I saw Patricia Cronin’s Memorial to a Marriage. https://claudiaramosmonteiro.com/a-ortografia-como-pele-da-l%C3%ADngua/ Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://claudiaramosmonteiro.com/a-ortografia-como-pele-da-l%C3%ADngua/ Em 1987, os linguistas Ivo Castro, Inês Duarte e Isabel Leiria1 fixaram uma frase que alguém disse quando começou a discutir-se o acordo ortográfico de 1986. (Ele não avançou, mas inspirou o de 1990, que temos hoje em vigor.) A frase era: A ortografia é a epiderme da língua. «Curiosamente», dizem eles, para muitas das pessoas que a têm invocado, [esta frase] significa que a ortografia é totalmente convencional e que nenhuns danos, ligeiros ou profundos, podem advir para a língua de remodelações ortográficas insensatas. https://claudiaramosmonteiro.com/ask-a-fragment/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://claudiaramosmonteiro.com/ask-a-fragment/ All of my Bible readings today turned to the idea of God both entering and transcending cultures.1 Every culture is a shard of a broken mirror; not a complete picture of humans, and therefore, not a complete picture of God either. Take the way we deal with death. In Portugal, we bury our dead within a couple of days and are left with the paraphernalia of their existence: the glasses by the dresser, the notebooks on the table, shopping lists in magnets on the fridge; their gaze and gait frozen in photos.