Journal of Italian Translation

Lina Insana/Primo Levi
2000; unfortunately, however, she was unable to explain her decisions with
regard to this particular passage.
12. Brian Swann collaborated with Feldman on the first translation of Levi’s
collected poetry, Shema (London: Menard Press, 1976, for which the pair
won the 1977 John Florio Prize) and as such is listed as a co-translator on the
revised and expanded 1988 publication, Collected poems (London, Boston:
Faber and Faber, 1988). However, according to Myriam Anissimov’s 1995
Levi biography, Feldman translated all of the additional poems—including
the 1984 “Il superstite” —by herself. This assertion is borne out by the fact
that in Moments of Reprieve, Feldman’s 1986 solo translation of many of Levi’s
short stories, including those originally printed under Levi’s La stampa rubric
and in 1981’s Lilít, the same translation of “Il superstite” stands in
epigraph to the text.
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