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.

It 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 Ruibrriz 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 Ruibrriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging commentand who must translate that?