
The Secret Crypt
Salvador Elizondo(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Published on 20. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
148 pages
978-1-62897-438-6 (ISBN)
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
220 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62897-438-6 (9781628974386)
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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 cronica 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.
Joshua Pollock is a poet and translator. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.