The Secret Crypt by Salvador Elizondo Paperback Book 9781628974386

Originally published in 1968amp160The Secret Cryptamp160is something of a cult classic in Mexican literatureamp160Elizondos 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 sectamp8217s founder known only as quotthe Imaginedquot 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 novelan unclassifiable masterpiece containing initiation rites sacrificial murder conspiracy and delirium