character sketch of umberto echo

Umberto Eco was a professor in the university of Bologna , Italy . A novel was written by him named The Name Of The Rose . He liked being interviewed as he was always ready to answer questions and also does not seemed to be apprehensive about sharing his secrets . He consider himself as a academic scholar and then a novelist . He used to attend the academic conferences and not the meetings of Pen Club Writers . According to him , like universe have empty spaces , our lives also have empty spaces which he called as interstices . He had few moments to spare between the two tasks and instead of wasting time he uses it and write an article . He was a university professor who writes novels on Sundays . Infact , his novel was a serious one and devels into meteology, theology and medevail history . His novel was successful. The reason behind being successful is still a mystery but when it was written that history was favoured for its success .