Spring in Fialta is cloudy and dull. Everything is damp: the piebald trunks of the plane trees, the juniper shrubs, the railings, the gravel. Far away, in a watery vista between the jagged edges of pale bluish houses, which tottered up from their knees to climb the slope (a cypress indicating the way), the blurred Mount St George is more than ever remote from its likeness on the picture postcards which since 1910, say (those straw hats, those youthful cabmen), have been courting the tourist from the sorry-go-round of their prop, among amethyst-toothed lumps of rock and the mantelpiece dreams of sea-shells. The air is windless and warm, with a faint tang of burning. The sea, its salt drowned in a solution of rain, is less glaucous than grey with waves too sluggish to break into foam...
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Spring in Fialta is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1936, originally as 圾快扼扶忘 志 孜我忘抖抆找快 (Vesna v Fial'te) in Russian, during his exile in Berlin. The English translation was performed by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov. Spring in Fialta is included in Nine Stories and Nabokov's Dozen.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: 圾抖忘忱我́技我把 圾抖忘忱我́技我把抉志我折 妖忘忌抉́抗抉志, Russian pronunciation: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr nɐˈbokəf]) (23 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899, Saint Petersburg 每 2 July 1977, Montreux) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as amongst his most important novels, and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate wordplay and descriptive detail that characterized all his works. The novel was ranked at #4 in the list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library.
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- RE: Spring in Fialta, Vladimir Nabokov and moreposted on 06/02/2012
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- RE: Spring in Fialta, Vladimir Nabokov and moreposted on 10/05/2012
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lolita is my all-time fav...
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