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Originally published in 1968, The Secret Crypt is something of a cult classic in Mexican literature.


Elizondo’s impassioned, breathless prose launches the reader into a labyrinth that is also a hall of mirrors. Here, we find a small group of characters who are part of an underground sect called Urkreis, one of whose aims is to discover the identity of the sect’s founder, known only as “the Imagined.” The identities of narrator, author, and characters blur into one another as the narrative moves between the two worlds of the novel and the author writing the novel—an unclassifiable masterpiece containing initiation rites, sacrificial murder, conspiracy, and delirium.

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    A Paperback / softback by Salvador Elizondo, Joshua Pollock

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      Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
      Publication Date: 20/10/2022
      ISBN13: 9781628974386, 978-1628974386
      ISBN10: 1628974389

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Originally published in 1968, The Secret Crypt is something of a cult classic in Mexican literature.


      Elizondo’s impassioned, breathless prose launches the reader into a labyrinth that is also a hall of mirrors. Here, we find a small group of characters who are part of an underground sect called Urkreis, one of whose aims is to discover the identity of the sect’s founder, known only as “the Imagined.” The identities of narrator, author, and characters blur into one another as the narrative moves between the two worlds of the novel and the author writing the novel—an unclassifiable masterpiece containing initiation rites, sacrificial murder, conspiracy, and delirium.

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