"Spring in Fialta" is a 1936 short story by Vladimir Nabokov with themes of memory, relationships, loss and jealousy. The story, told by an unreliable narrator named Victor, follows his relationship with Nina, another exile as they are staying in a town on the Mediterranean called Fialta. The story delves into the past, revealing Victor's ambiguous love for Nina and his jealousy and spite of her husband, Ferdinand. After refusing to go on a ride with the couple, Victor later learns that Nina has died in a car accident.
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