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The Interview
What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?
Umberto Eco is known for as a writer of novels. His scholarly work is different from a more regular academic style. Mukund asks Eco about his use of informal style. Here Eco tells that most of the scholars first learn a lot about a subject. They make a lot of false hypotheses, correct them and put a final conclusion. In his case of research he put the method of ‘Trails and Errors.’ His professor agreed to it and his dissertation was published as a book. At the age of 22, he felt that even the scholarly books should be written by telling a story of one’s research. That was the reason that his essays had a narrative aspect. It was because of his narrative ability, he started writing novels. At the age of 50 he started writing novels, though somewhat late but he started writing by accident. Novels started his taste for narration. He even told that he was a university professor who wrote novels on Sundays. He participated in academic conferences to identify himself with the academic community. By writing novels, he had reached a large audience.
Some More Questions From The Interview Chapter
Who in today’s world, our chief source of information about personalities?
Do you think Umberto Eco likes being interviewed? Give reasons for your opinion.
How does Eco find the time to write so much?
What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?
Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?
What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, ‘The Name of the Rose’?
Talk about any interview you watched on television or read in a newspaper. How did it add to your understanding of the celebrity, the interviewer and the field of the celebrity?
The medium you like best for an interview, print, radio, or television.
Every famous person has a right to his or her privacy. Interviewers sometimes embarrass celebrities with very personal questions.
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.]
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