The critic and essayist Jordi Costa, head of exhibitions at the CCCB, assures that he has read Thomas Pynchon's latest novel, A oscuras (Tusquets, 2026), with a certain "tension between the reading speed the book demands and the need to savor each page", aware that, after finishing it, he will surely not read another novel by the veteran American writer, who is already 89 years old. Costa, who confesses to being "a big fan" of Pynchon, found A oscuras to be "a very fun and youthful novel", although the reading process was curious: "Lately I felt that I had gotten used to Pynchon's long and digressive sentences, but in this book that no longer happened to me and it took me a while to acclimatize. And I think it's a matter of code, because the story is set in the thirties and draws from the noir novels of Hammett and Chandler".