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The article offers a theoretical exploration of one of the infinite potentialities of the monstrous body, a body that appears as deviant, non-conforming, as it escapes the pre-established boundaries of what is deemed as acceptable; it exceeds and in this exceeding it imposes its diversity while imposing a re-vision. These potentialities have been recognised by feminist, posthuman, and in particular trans* and transfeminist literature and theory, and it is the latter that will be here tackled. The trans* body is one of those bodies that are still demonised as monstrous, and it is precisely on account of that perversity to which it is associated, that, in some instances, it has chosen to identify and align with the monster. Embracing monstrosity becomes not only a symbolic but a political act of disidentification that implies embracing otherness with strength and pride: rejecting the impositions of a normative body, acknowledging one’s own multiplicity and opening up to multiplicities; becoming a figure of ‘potent fusions,’ as well as of ‘potent alliances.’

This article examines the Russian translation of 'Le leggende sarde' [Sardinian Legends] by Grazia Deledda, which deals with the extremely complex language of the Italian-Sardinian hybrid original text. The aim of this work is to verify the achievement, in the target text, of functional equivalence (f-equivalence). In direct dialogue with the translator, the strategies involve the explanation and application of the theoretical tools dictated by the most recent studies in translation studies.