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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.

The Secret Crypt

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Paperback / softback by Salvador Elizondo , Joshua Pollock

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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... Read more

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

    Number of Pages: 148

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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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