Having translated Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend , I understood that, firstly, it was a great joy for me to deal with Wodehouse's works and, secondly, I enjoyed writing and talking for the heroes. Yes, there are lots of them, the main reason being the low level of translators. Well, it's only natural. There were formerly excellent editors in first-class publishing houses, such as Khudozhestvennaja Literatura. Viktor Ashkenazi from the Innostrannaja Literatura magazine is a wonderful editor.
All translators sometimes write absurd things.
A good editor surveys the work we did with an eagle eye. I stopped at Fowles. If I were told it was written by an Augustian-Franciscan theologian, I would get the point. If I set about Spanish literature, it will be Juan de la Cruz whom I will translate. Inspiration is an essential thing, of course.