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

[Edward M Dumanis]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Benjamin Sher wrote:

> 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?
> 
................/snip/.................

> …«Sozertsatel'» (potrebitel') tem samym iavliaetsia konstitutivnym
> momentom iskusstva."
> 
Not counting myself among Bakhtin scholars, I'd like to mention that I
think that "user" (in contemporary meaning, i.e., "software user," "end
user") fits very well the meaning of "sozertsatel'" in the given context.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

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