"I'm Afraid of Diseases. I'm a Person Who's Used to Autonomy and Freedom, and Diseases Take Away Freedom and Autonomy," Says Dacia Maraini.

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One of the most important and authoritative writers, poetesses, playwrights and contemporary Italian essaysist, will turn 90 on November 13th, but Dacia Maraini has a realistic, hard, lucid vision of what it means to live. Maraini told Vanity Fair: "I don't think that love can be a trap. The traps snap when love turns into servitude, into mania of possession, jealousy, envy, will of power, in disrespect towards the other." Last January Maraini p…