Interviews
Daína Chaviano: Her Passions and Fantasies.
Author: Sarah Moreno
Source: El Nuevo Herald (USA, 2007)
Daína Chaviano talks about her childhood, her main influences and the ghosts that haunt her:
"At thirteen, I was reading works like Sex and Taboo, by Freud. I secretly read my mother's whole psychology collection. Schizophrenia was always my favorite mental illness. It seemed very romantic to me, maybe because I associated it with the portrait of Ophelia's madness that Shakespeare creates in Hamlet." (Complete text in PDF)
"At thirteen, I was reading works like Sex and Taboo, by Freud. I secretly read my mother's whole psychology collection. Schizophrenia was always my favorite mental illness. It seemed very romantic to me, maybe because I associated it with the portrait of Ophelia's madness that Shakespeare creates in Hamlet." (Complete text in PDF)
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