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

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Javier Marías ISBN: 9780811219648
Publisher: New Directions Publication: February 24, 2010
Imprint: New Directions Language: English
Author: Javier Marías
ISBN: 9780811219648
Publisher: New Directions
Publication: February 24, 2010
Imprint: New Directions
Language: English

A gem of a Marías 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 Ruibérriz 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 Ruibérriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment—and who must translate that?

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A gem of a Marías 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 Ruibérriz 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 Ruibérriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment—and who must translate that?

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