Scribd
Upload
41 views18 pages

Arpit Porwal: - Youtuber With Over 4,17,000+ Subscribers - Perusing B.Tech - Founder of Appedia

- Arpit Porwal is a YouTuber with over 417,000 subscribers who is pursuing a B.Tech degree and is the founder of APpedia - The video discusses interviews with Umberto Eco and reasons some celebrity writers dislike being interviewed, such as feeling interviews are an assault on their privacy and leave a disparaging effect on their personalities - Unique aspects of Umberto Eco's academic writing style included being informal, playful, and filling research stories with trials and errors to make the work interesting and not just informative

Uploaded by

harshit tomer
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
41 views18 pages

Arpit Porwal: - Youtuber With Over 4,17,000+ Subscribers - Perusing B.Tech - Founder of Appedia

- Arpit Porwal is a YouTuber with over 417,000 subscribers who is pursuing a B.Tech degree and is the founder of APpedia - The video discusses interviews with Umberto Eco and reasons some celebrity writers dislike being interviewed, such as feeling interviews are an assault on their privacy and leave a disparaging effect on their personalities - Unique aspects of Umberto Eco's academic writing style included being informal, playful, and filling research stories with trials and errors to make the work interesting and not just informative

Uploaded by

harshit tomer
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 18

Arpit Porwal

• YouTuber with over 4,17,000+


subscribers
• Perusing B.Tech
• Founder of APpedia
The Interview
| Questions discussed in video
1. Why did Umberto Eco prefer
himself to be called an academician
than a novelist?
Answer 1 . Despite achieving fame as a
novelist, Eco preferred to associate himself
with the academic community because his
non fictional work occupied him for the first
50 years of his life.
He wrote his first novel age of around fifty
He identified himself more with the
academic community and resorts to writing
for only when he was not pursuing some
scholarly work.
2. Why do most celebrity writers
despise being interviewed?
Answer 2. Celebrities like VS Naipaul, Rudyard
Kipling, Lewis Carroll and HG Wels have
expressed their strong despise for interviews.
They consider interviews immoral an
assault because they feel interviews leave
a rather disparaging effect on their
personalities and are an encroachment on
their privacy.
3. What was unique and distinctive
about Eco's academic writing
style?
Answer 3. Umberto Eco's academic writing
style is personal informal and playful. He fills
his research stories with the trials and errors
so that even his research work has the
uniqueness of creative writing and reading. It
is not only informative but also interesting.
4. State the reason for the huge
success of the novel, “The Name
of the Rose”
Ans4. There is no one reason for the huge
success of the novel The Name of the
Rose. Umberto Eco himself called its
success a mystery.
It is possible that his detective story that
delved into metaphysics, theology and
medieval history, interested the readers
because the time in which it was written
was most appropriate neither a decade
earlier nor a decade later.
5. Why do most celebrity writers
hate to be interviewed?
Answer 5. Most of the celebrity writers
shun interviews as they feel that interviews
leave a disparaging effect on their
personalities. They consider them as an
encroachment on their privacy.
6. What was Lewis Carroll's attitude
towards being interviewed?
Answer 6. Lewis Carroll shunned interviews for
the fear of being projected as larger than life.
He vehemently refused to give interviews and
kept his fans, acquaintances and interviewers
at an arm's length. This give him a great sense
of satisfaction.
Thank-You
Like | SHARE | Subscribe

You might also like