THE INTERVIEW BY CHRISTOPHER SILVERSTER

COMPLETE SOLUTION OF THE INTERVIEW

 Q1. What is the name of the author of “The Interview”?

Ans:- Christopher Silvester is the author of “The Interwiew”

Q2. What is Interview?

Ans:- Interview is a quick medium of brief introduction about the truth and fair.

Q3. Since how many years ago interview has become common for journalism?

Ans:- Since its invention a little over 130 years ago, interview has become a commonplace

of journalism.

Q4. Why most of the celebrities don’t want to face the interview?

Ans:- Most of celebrity, writers, poets and actors refuse being interviewed because they think

interview is

an intrusion into their lives. They think it reveals their secret and hidden characters before the

world. So, most of celebrity refuse being interviewed.

Q5. What is the opinion of V. S. Naipaul about the interview?

Ans:- V. S. Naipaul feels that some people are wounded by interviews and lose a part of

themselves.

Q6. What are the opinion of Rudyard Kipling and his wife Caroline about the interview?

Ans:- Rudyard Kipling, the famous author of ‘Jungle Book’ says – interview is quite common

 While other hand his wife Caroline feels, interview is a crime. It ruins lives of many people.

Q7. What are some of the positive views on interviews?

Ans:- Few people think, interview is a source of truth and an art in its practice while many other

 consider  it a quick medium of communication. Some of us think interview is a way of brief

introduction about truth and fair.

Q8. What is the belief in some primitive cultures about being photographed?

Ans:- In some primitive cultures believed that if someone takes a photographic portrait of

somebody. Then Someone is stealing that one’s soul.

Q9. What do you understand by the expression “thumbprints on his windpipe”?

Ans:- “Thumbprint on his windpipe” that means ill feelings and suffocation of that person who

 is being interviewed beyond his desire.

Q10. Who, in today’s world, is our chief source of information about personalities?

Ans:- In our today’s world, only the interviewer” is our chief source of information about

personalities.

Q11. Who is Umberto Eco? What does he do?

Ans:- Umberto Eco is a famous professor at the University of Bologna in Italy. He writes novel

On Sunday.

Q12. Who is Mukund Padmanabhan?

Ans:- Mukund Padmanabhan is an Interviewer from “The Hindu”.

Q13. Why is Umberto Eco famous?

Ans:- Umberto Eco is famous for his novels and story writing. He writes novels and short stories.

His stories are even famous among children which are about non-violence and peace.

Q14. Which secret does Eco talk about?

Ans:- Eco talks about time and space of the universe, he says; if you eliminate the empty spaces

from the universe, eliminate the empty spaces in all the atoms. Then this entire universe will

 become as a big fist.

Q15. What is the name of Eco’s famous novel?

Ans:- “The Name of the Rose” is Eco’s famous novel.

Q16. At what age Eco started writing novels?

Ans:- Eco started writing novels so late, at the age of 50.

Q17. Who was Roland Barthes? Why was he frustrated?

Ans:- Roland Barthes was Eco’s friend. Roland always frustrated that he was an essayist and not

a novelist.

Q18. How did Eco start writing novel?

Ans:- Eco started writing novels by accidentally. One day he had nothing to do and so he started

writing novels.

Q19. How many novels and non-fictions have been written by Eco?

Ans:- Umberto has written more than 40 novels and non-fictions and among them a book of

 semiotics too.

Q20. How many copies of “The Name of The Rose” had been sold in U.S.?

Ans:- In U.S. two or three million copies of “The Name of The Rose” had been sold which was

 Beyond the expectation of the publisher and himself Eco.

Q21. Do you think Umberto Eco likes being interviewed? Give reasons for your opinion.

Ans:- Of course, it seems that Eco likes being interviewed. Because he answers each and every

question  of the interviewer with a kind of interest. It doesn’t seem that he wants to get rid of being

 interviewed.So this keen interest of Eco clears that Eco likes being interviewed.

       Q22. How does Eco find the time to write so much?

Ans:- Eco finds the time to write so much by his own way, he doesn’t spoil even a second of his

life without any purpose. He uses even his rare piece of time for writing like while waiting for

someone or while going to elevator. He writes books even for children which are about

non-violence and peace.

Q23. What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?

Ans:- The distinctive virtue of Eco’s academic writing style is his adore for creative writing.

 Even his dissertation for a doctoral degree was presented as a narrative. This even the serious

 things look amusing.

Q24. Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?

Ans:- Umberto Eco is a university professor who writes novels on Sunday but Eco considers

 himself an academic scholar first.

He doesn’t go in the meeting of Pen clubs and writers but he participates in academic conference.

He writes novels when he feels easy from academic pursuit at the time.

Q25.What is the reason for the huge success of the novel. The Name of The Rose?

Ans:- The reason behind the huge success of the novel ‘The Name of The Rose’ is a mystery.

In the view of Eco, behind the huge success of this novel only perfect timing. He says,  if it would

have publishedten years earlier or ten years later, it might not have succeeded such as he feels.