Self-translator’s [In]Visibility

Self-back-translation is an uncommon practice in which a bilingual author retranslates thealready translated text of their writing back into the original source language. A good example ofself-back-translation comes from one short stories by Haruki Murakami, renowned Japanese and translator, who back-translated English translation his story “Rēdāhōzen [Lederhosen]” published it as new version. This peculiar practise self-backtranslation has led handful researchers to probe some ongoing debates studies perspectives—e.g., examine relationship between intralingual interlingual translation, originality translator’s (in)visibility, more. Asking questions such these, this paper examines nature purpose self-back-translation role general, particularly self-translator’s perspective, comaparing Murakami’s with another self-translator. The study found that much could get lost while going through filtration process self-back-translation, but be gained. Whether or end-product improvement text—i.e., sometimes exceeds original. why writers self-(back)-translate.