City space occupation experience in contemporary perm artistic memoirs and essays

Perm authors' artistic memoirs and essays, where the city space is conceptualized, are considered in the article. The experience of writers from Perm and those who write about Perm allows considering several interrelated and often compatible tendencies, referred to the theme of the city: a memoirist's personal-biographical reflection, historical-cultural research, mythologisation, and also the performative element and appealed to the reader the aim at the co-authorship, expressed not only in direct statements, but also in the author's use of outer and inner edition infrastructure as an active semantic catalyst. As examples of city essays the materials created in the genre of a walk are also used. This genre is becoming more and more popular among Perm writers and publicists in the current decade. Literary critical experience of the author of this article is used in the preparation of the text.