Flamingo Prose Chapter 7 The Interview ENGLISH [FL] - Flamingo Prose Chapter 7 The Interview

__________ was the professor at the University of Bologna in Italy.

The __________ has become a common place of journalism.

According to Umberto what will happen to the world if we eliminate empty spaces from the universe?

Why does Eco call the success of his book a mystery?

Who has written Alice in Wonderland?

Since its invention a little over 130 years ago, the interview has become a commonplace of journalism. Today, almost everybody who is literate will have read an interview at some point in their lives, while from the other point of view; several thousand celebrities have been interviewed over the years, some of them repeatedly.

So it is hardly \surprising that opinions of the interview-of its functions, methods and merits – vary considerably. Some might make quite extravagant claims for it as being, in its highest form, a source of truth, and, in its practice, an art. Others, usually celebrities who see themselves as its victims, might despise the interview as an unwarranted intrusion into their lives, or feel that it somehow diminishes them, just as in some primitive cultures it is believed that if one takes a photographic portrait of somebody then one is stealing that person’s soul.

V S. Naipaul ‘feels that some people are wounded by interviews and lose a part of themselves,’ Lewis Carroll, the creator of Alice in Wonderland, was said to have had ‘a just horror of the interviewer’ and he never consented to be interviewed – It was his horror of being lionized which made him thus repel would-be acquaintances, interviewers, and the persistent petitioners for his autograph and he would afterwards relate the stories of his success in silencing all such people with much satisfaction and amusement.
Questions:
Q.1. Another expression for ‘commonplace’ is ………………….. .
A. ‘Public Park’. B. ‘Shopping Centre’
C. ‘Ordinary’ D. ‘Frequently’.

Q.2. Celebrities hate interviews because they feel that they …………………. .
A. are not advantageous to them.
B. are an unwarranted intrusion into their lives.
C. bring them dishonour.
D. spread wrong messages against them.

Q.3. In primitive culture it was believed that if one takes somebody’s photo, he ………………. .
A. blackmails him. B. takes away his soul too.
C. helps him bring glory. D. humiliates him.

Since its invention a little over 130 years ago, the interview has become a commonplace of journalism. Today, almost everybody who is literate will have read an interview at some point in their lives, while from the other point of view; several thousand celebrities have been interviewed over the years, some of them repeatedly.

So it is hardly \surprising that opinions of the interview-of its functions, methods and merits – vary considerably. Some might make quite extravagant claims for it as being, in its highest form, a source of truth, and, in its practice, an art. Others, usually celebrities who see themselves as its victims, might despise the interview as an unwarranted intrusion into their lives, or feel that it somehow diminishes them, just as in some primitive cultures it is believed that if one takes a photographic portrait of somebody then one is stealing that person’s soul.

V S. Naipaul ‘feels that some people are wounded by interviews and lose a part of themselves,’ Lewis Carroll, the creator of Alice in Wonderland, was said to have had ‘a just horror of the interviewer’ and he never consented to be interviewed – It was his horror of being lionized which made him thus repel would-be acquaintances, interviewers, and the persistent petitioners for his autograph and he would afterwards relate the stories of his success in silencing all such people with much satisfaction and amusement.
Questions:
Q.1. Another expression for ‘commonplace’ is ………………….. .
A. ‘Public Park’. B. ‘Shopping Centre’ C. ‘Ordinary’ D. ‘Frequently’.

Q.2. Celebrities hate interviews because they feel that they …………………. .
A. are not advantageous to them. B. are an unwarranted intrusion into their lives.
C. bring them dishonour. D. spread wrong messages against them.

Q.3. In primitive culture it was believed that if one takes somebody’s photo, he ………………. .
A. blackmails him. B. takes away his soul too. C. helps him bring glory. D. humiliates him.

What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, ‘The Name of the Rose’ ?

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

What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?

How does Eco find the time to write so much?

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

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As I presented my first Doctoral dissertation in Italy,
one of the professors said,
“Scholars learn a lot of a same subject, then they make a lot of false hypotheses,