Le Corp de Eleonora Fonseca de la Menarque à La Ménopause Dans IL Resto DI Niente de Enzo Striano
Eleonora Fonseca Body From Menopause To Menopause in IL Resto DI Niente of Enzo Striano

Summary/Abstract: In 1986, Enzo Striano published Il resto di niente, a historical novel whose events revolve around the controversial figure of the Jacobin poet and patriot Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel. The educational and existential journey of the protagonist of Il resto di niente goes hand in hand with the physical development (and its decline) of the female body in which the poet lives. Lenòr’s physical development symbolically opens and closes coinciding with the start and end of the menstrual cycle of the essence itself, that is, of her existence as a woman and, even more symbolically, with the presence of King Ferdinand (real or imagined) to mark her origin and epilogue. Between these two crucial moments, Lenòr Fonseca’s female body undergoes a whole series of changes due not only to aging and emotional suffering, but also to pregnancy and a subsequent abortion, caused by the beatings of her husband. Enzo Striano follows step by step the physical evolution of the protagonist of Il resto di niente, which at times seems to go beyond the psychological, making the novel also a kind of failed Bildungsroman.

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