The shadows of Palermo in Andò's great book: the 'crocodile' is the metaphor for that impossibility of coming to terms with things

There are novels so fascinating that the plot in the end is a pretext, an accompaniment of chords on a sumptuous theme, almost to say that it matters little. Here, 'The Palermo Crocodile' by Roberto Andò (Theseus's Ship) is one of them. The famous director, already the author of other literary works (“The Empty Throne” won the Campiello debut film in 2012), has written a bewitching book between the dreamlike, the philosophical and the mystery, s…