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So? Is he supposed to tell fans "I don't want to translate it so you shouldn't do it either" or what?
I think it's more that he's obsessed with having absolute control over the translation, rather than just trusting professionals to adapt the core idea across different languages
One could argue that in a century, his work couldn't be experienced anymore anyway because the culture and the language will have evolved from what he intended