Bakhtin's Sozertsatel' -- "Contemplator" -- ???

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

May I ask for help from Bakhtin scholars out there?

Please look at the last part of the quote below: how has
"sozertsatel'" been translated by Bakhtin's English translators? Is
there one standard translation or a number of them?
"Contemplator" simply does not make sense in English. What's
the general consensus?

"Mezhdu tem, kak govoril M.M. Bakhtin, poskol'ku iskusstvo –
eto produkt «sotsial'nogo obshcheniia», to vsiakoe vyskazyvanie
(proizvedenie) mozhet byt' poniato pri uslovii, chto ono est'
«produkt sotsial'nogo vzaimodeistviia» trekh: govoriashchego
(avtora), slushatelia (chitatelia) i togo, o kom (ili o chem) govoriat
(geroia). No glavnoe – «konkretnoe vyskazyvanie
 roditsia,
zhivet i umiraet v protsesse sotsial'nogo vzaimodeistviia
uchastnikov vyskazyvniia. Vyrvav proizvedenie iz situatsii
«sotsial'nogo obshcheniia», v kotoroi  ono rodilos', otorvav
vyskazyvanie ot real'noi pitaiushchei ego pochvy, my teriaem
kliuch kak k ego forme, tak i k ego smyslu» (Voloshilov. V. N. –
M. M. Bakhtin – Slovo v zhizni i slovo v poezii. // V kn. Iz istorii
sovetskoi esteticheskoi mysli. M., 1980.) 
«Sozertsatel'»
(potrebitel') tem samym iavliaetsia konstitutivnym momentom
iskusstva."

Thank you so much.

Benjamin



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