“Most of my stories focus on a moment from my childhood,” says the author Michele Mari, whose short story “The Soccer Balls of Mr. Kurz” is in this week’s issue.
” [“Eurydice Had a Dog”].) Many of your stories fixate on the objects of childhood: comic books, jigsaw puzzles, toy cars. What is the power that this period possesses for you?
The boarding school has a distinctive air of repression. Parents are allowed to visit only intermittently, and seem bored when they do so; the school is governed by strict “Instructresses” who refuse to intervene with Kurz. Were there experiences that you drew on to depict the environment of this school?
The young boys have a deep admiration for George Best, the Northern Irish soccer player considered one of the greatest of all time, and acquire a World Cup replica ball with his signature . There is also mention of players like Antonio Juliano and Kurt Hamrin, and of the Superga disaster of 1949, in which the Torino team was killed.
In the story, the boys discover that Kurz has been hoarding lost soccer balls from the boarding school for decades. Did you envision Kurz’s collection as stemming from an impulse of preservation, of covetousness, or of something else altogether?
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