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.