The Secret Crypt by Elizondo, Salvador

The Secret Crypt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781628974386)

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The Secret Crypt by Elizondo, Salvador

The Secret Crypt

$15.95
The Secret Crypt by Elizondo, Salvador

The Secret Crypt

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Salvador Elizondo
ISBN-10: 1628974389
ISBN-13: 9781628974386
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2022
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 5.40h x 8.30w x 0.50d
By Salvador Elizondo
By Salvador Elizondo
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Salvador Elizondo was a Mexican experimental novelist, poet, and critic. His works include Farabeuf, or the Chronicle of an Instant (1965), The Secret Crypt (1968), The Graphographer (1972), Elsinore: A Notebook (1988), and Theory of Hell (1993). He won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1965 for his first novel, Farabeuf o la crica de un instante, and was awarded the Mexican National Prize for Letters in 1990.

Joshua Pollock is a poet and translator. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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