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CBSE Class 12 · English · Flamingo / Vistas

The Interview

Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Class 12 English.

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About the author

Christopher Silvester (Part I) and Umberto Eco / Mukund Padmanabhan (Part II). Part I discusses interview as journalistic form; Part II has Eco on his "empty spaces" and Padmanabhan interviewing him.

Summary

Some call it art; others invasion of privacy.

Some call it art; others invasion of privacy.

Lewis Carroll, Saul Bellow on interviews.

Lewis Carroll, Saul Bellow on interviews.

Semiotics professor and novelist - many hats.

Semiotics professor and novelist - many hats.

Uses fragments of time others waste.

Uses fragments of time others waste.

How write so much? Secret is intervals.

How write so much? Secret is intervals.

Eco says readers like difficult books if they find themselves.

Eco says readers like difficult books if they find themselves.

Hard words & meanings

intersticessmall gaps
seminoticsstudy of signs
voyeurone who spies
arrogantproudly rude
meditativethoughtful
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