Character Sketch of Umberto Eco ('The Interview' by Christopher Silvester))

Umberto Eco is an Italian medievalist, semiotics, philosopher, literary critic and novelist who was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont in January 5, 1932 and died in February 19, 2016. Umberto Eco is a professor at the university of Bologna in Italy who writes novel on Sunday. He loves writing who has written over 20 novels, literary fictions, academic texts, essay, children's books and news paper articles. The Name of The Rose which sold more than 10 million copies. Here in the story of Christopher Silvester The Interview Umberto Eco is being interviewed by Mukund Padmanbhan reporter of The Hindu . He likes being interviewed and answers every question with smiling without any difficulty whereas many of the greatest celebrities hate being interviewed because of their privacy to be revealed before the world. He is the man who doesn't spoil even a second of his life without writing. Eco started writing stories books at 22 but novels he started writing much late at 50. He doesn't attend pen club of writers but he attends academic conferences all week. He finds so much time to write in the empty spaces that we all have in our lives, just like the restructure atoms and universe. He terms these empty spaces as 'interstices'. He has reached to the large audiences through out his novels and scholarly books as well as his semiotics book but he doesn't believe he has reached large audiences else a small percentage of people.          
His writing output is staggeringly large and wide ranging, in 1980, he acquired the equivalent of intellectual stardom with the publication of