Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls)

A gem of a Mar­as story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals.

€œIt all happened because of Elvis Presley.€ Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruib©rriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night, horseplay in a local bar goes too far: a fatuous drunken American insults the local kingpin, and when the thug insists that Ruib©rriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment€•and who must translate that?