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    Through an interview with Mukund Padmanabhan, Umberto Eco reveals that he sees himself as an academic rather than a novelist, pursuing the same philosophical ideas in all his varied works. He writes novels on Sundays by accident and modestly explains his prolific output. Eco assessed his style in The Name of the Rose as a serious detective novel delving into theology and history that found a large audience because people enjoy difficult reads, not just easy experiences. Some celebrity writers despise interviews but Eco proved interviews can elicit much information about the interviewee when handled by a skilled interviewer.

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    Through an interview with Mukund Padmanabhan, Umberto Eco reveals that he sees himself as an academic rather than a novelist, pursuing the same philosophical ideas in all his varied works. He writes novels on Sundays by accident and modestly explains his prolific output. Eco assessed his style in The Name of the Rose as a serious detective novel delving into theology and history that found a large audience because people enjoy difficult reads, not just easy experiences. Some celebrity writers despise interviews but Eco proved interviews can elicit much information about the interviewee when handled by a skilled interviewer.

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    Through an interview with Mukund Padmanabhan, Umberto Eco reveals that he sees himself as an academic rather than a novelist, pursuing the same philosophical ideas in all his varied works. He writes novels on Sundays by accident and modestly explains his prolific output. Eco assessed his style in The Name of the Rose as a serious detective novel delving into theology and history that found a large audience because people enjoy difficult reads, not just easy experiences. Some celebrity writers despise interviews but Eco proved interviews can elicit much information about the interviewee when handled by a skilled interviewer.

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    Through an interview with Mukund Padmanabhan, Umberto Eco reveals that he sees himself as an academic rather than a novelist, pursuing the same philosophical ideas in all his varied works. He writes novels on Sundays by accident and modestly explains his prolific output. Eco assessed his style in The Name of the Rose as a serious detective novel delving into theology and history that found a large audience because people enjoy difficult reads, not just easy experiences. Some celebrity writers despise interviews but Eco proved interviews can elicit much information about the interviewee when handled by a skilled interviewer.

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    1.

    How does the interview with Umberto Eco prove that the interview
    is the most commendable tool to elicit information about the
    interviewee?

    Mukund Padmanabhan from ‘The Hindu’ interviews Umberto Eco and


    proves that interview is the most commendable tool to elicit
    information about the interviewee

    Through his interview he reveals that Eco is a prolific writer and yet
    a man who is most modest about his achievements. He very humbly
    spells the secret of his varied and staggeringly voluminous works
    produced by him. When Mukund asks him about David Lodge’s remark
    that how one man can do all the things that Eco does, Eco very
    modestly says it is a fallacious impression, in the fact he has always
    been doing the same thing by pursuing the same philosophical ideas.
    He views himself as an academic, rather than a novelist. He admits
    that he has started writing novels by accident and writes novels on
    Sundays.

    2. How did Umberto Eco assess his style of writing in The Name of
    the Rose ?

    Umberto Eco considered himself to be an academician who was happy


    writing novels on Sundays. Though he did not feel he was a novelist,
    he felt his desire for narration. In fact, he spoke of himself as a
    university professor who wrote novels on Sundays. The novel,
    accordin to him, enabled him to reach a larger audience. The Name
    of the rose was a very serious novel. It was a detective story that
    delved into metaphysics, theology and medieval history. It enjoyed a
    huge audience as, according to him, people did enjoy difficult reading
    experiences. Like im, namy did not like easy experiences all the time.
    The novel deals with a period of medieval history and the publisher
    did not expect to sell so well in a state where nobody had studied
    Latin or seen a cathedral. He felt the timing was crucial. Perhaps its
    popularity would have been less, had it been written earlier or later.

    3. How do celebrity writers despise being interviewed as given in


    ‘The interview’?

    Since its invention a little over 130 years ago, the interview has
    become commonplace journalism. Over the years, opinions about its
    functions, methods and merits vary considerably.

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