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(novelist, aesthetics, extract, professor, staggeringly, intellectual, convinced, impression, formidable, semiotics)
“I am a ______ who writes novels on Sundays” - Umberto EcoThe following is an ________ from an interview of UmbertoEco. The interviewer is Mukund Padmanabhan fromThe Hindu. Umberto Eco, a professor at the Universityof Bologna in Italy had already acquired a ________reputation as a scholar for his ideas on ________ (thestudy of signs), literary interpretation, and medieval _______ before he turned to writing fiction. Literaryfiction, academic texts, essays, children’s books, newspaper articles-his written output is ________ large and wide-ranging, In 1980, he acquired the equivalent of ________ superstardom with thepublication of The Name of the Rose, which sold morethan 10 million copies. Mukund: The English ________ and academic David Lodgeonce remarked, “I can’t understand how one mancan do all the things he [Eco] does.” Umberto Eco: Maybe I give the ________ of doing manythings. But in the end, I am _______ I am alwaysdoing the same thing.

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Professor, extract, formidablere, aesthetics, staeringly, intellectual, novelist, impression, convinced,

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