The philosopher Vilém Flusser created a robust transdisciplinary work whose central point of interest is the communicative act. Given his experience of exile and the author's multilingualism, the practice of translating his own texts into Portuguese, German, English and French make Flusser a multilingual self-translating author of interest for translation studies. In this article, I present a relationship between Flusser's multilingualism, his experience of exile and the construction of an I that takes place in languages and in the space between them. Throughout the text, I establish relationships with authors who, like Flusser, translate themselves and reflect on bilingualism or multilingualism, displacement, language and writing.