"Spring in Fialta" is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1936, originally as Весна в Фиальте (Vesna v Fial'te) in Russian, during his exile in Berlin.
Victor, the narrator, serendipitously encounters Nina, a fellow exile, at Fialta, a fictional Mediterranean town.
Later, he learns they have been involved in a car crash in which Ferdinand, the "invulnerable rogue", escapes with minor injury, but in which Nina perishes.
The story incorporates many of Nabokov’s themes and techniques that are present in later novels: recreating events by memory, the issue of reality, relationship to women, the sense of loss, recalling Russia, the relationship to the double, the unreliable narrator, and a non-chronological narrative.
[1] While the plot was invented, the story may be a "tangential record" of an extramarital affair that Nabokov may have engaged in.