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The Secret Crypt
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Series: Mexican Literature
General FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 1628974389
ISBN13: 9781628974386
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Sep 6 2022
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781628974386
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Sep 6 2022
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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.
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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