If the interviewer Mukund Padmanabhan had not got the space in the newspaper to reproduce the interview verbatim, he might have been asked to produce a short report of the interview with the salient points.

Write this report for him.

[The teacher should be able to help the pupils in what to include and what can be omitted.] [We could also provide a short report of an interview as a sample.]

A Report Sample Interview of Umberto Eco

By : Mukund Padmanabhan -the Hindu Delhi 10 April, the academic scholar Umberto Eco clears that he is a professor who writes novels on Sundays. He participates in academic conferences and not in meetings of pen clubs and writers. He identifies himself with the academic community being a professor.

He clears his theory of interstices, the empty spaces. He says that while waiting for the interviewers to reach him by lift from first floor to the third, he wrote one article. It is an empty space, such everyone has in his life.

He clears his novel ‘The Name of the Rose’ has a detective yarn with metaphysics, theology and medieval history. It has difficult experiences and people prefer to read only trash. Its huge success is still a mystery even to its writer Umberto Eco.

Umberto has written over 40 non fictional essays which include his seminal piece of work on semiotics. His books for children contain nonviolence and peace ... a bunch of ethical and philosophical interests.

Umberto states that his first doctoral dissertation was a narration of the story of his research, and his trials and errors. It was recognised, so it was published as a book.

Umberto Eco states that his dear friend Ronald Barthes remained always frustrated because he was an essayist and not a novelist. Though he wished to do some creative writing one day but he died before he could.

Umberto Eco clears that he started writing novels by accident. One day he had nothing to do, so he started writing a novel.

About the huge success of the novel, ‘The Name of the Rose’ he clears that if it had been written ten years earlier or ten years later, it would not have been the same.