# The Secret Crypt

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- Authors: [Salvador Elizondo](https://www.bookquiver.com/salvador-elizondo)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2022-10-20
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

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.

## Editions

### The Secret Crypt

- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- ISBN: 978-16-2897-438-6
- Pages: 148
- Published: 2022-10-20
- Language: en_US