The Interview Summary Class 12 English English Flamingo

 —by CHRISTOPHER SILVESTER

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THEME:-

The interview as a communication genre.

SUB-THEME:-

An excerpt from an interview with an author

SUMMARY

• In this piece the writer talks about the positive and negative aspects of an interview.
• Some people believe it to be a source of authentic information whereas others believe it to be an unnecessary evil as they consider it as an intrusion in their personal lives.
• Lewis Carol the creator of characters like ‘Alice in Wonderland’ was proud that he never gave an interview.
• Rudyard Kipling’s wife believed that interviewing was immoral.
• In spite of its negatives the writer feels that interview is a valuable resource.
• Part-2 of the passage is an excerpt from an interview with a writer and professor Umberto Eco.
• He was an expert in Semiotics.
• His novel The Name of the Rose’ sold as many as 10,000 copies.
• He tells the interviewer Mukund that he had perfected the art of writing in narrative style.
• Mukund wants to know how he felt when people referred to him as a famous novelist though he was writer of non-fiction work.
• He wanted to know whether Umberto Eco was surprised that people praised his novel. interview can be called an interaction wherein the interviewer elicits responses from the interviewee. As a result an interview becomes an authentic source of information.