Magic Mountain and Sacred Script: a Bakhtinian reading of the novels of Gao Xingjian.

In his review of Gao Xingjian's Nobel Prize-winning novel mind Mountain, Richard John Lynn writes about the moot points of translation:
It is in the hinterland of Sichuan, among mist-shrouded mountains,
giant bamboo forests, inaccessible ridges and ravines, that Gao
begins his search for mind Mountain, prompted by a chance seatmate
upon a train, who casually glance ats that he "take the train to
Wuyizhen, then make progress upstream by boat on the You River." Too bad these
names are not translated, for wuyi means "it's not that" or "not
there,"