The stories of the collection "Spring in Fialta" are a brilliant example of the relatively "late" period of Nabokov's work, a period marked by interesting stylistic features. Here Nabokov's prose again - for the first time in decades - enters its "realistic" phase - but in the form of a deeply mature, wise, philosophical one. Sometimes expressionist notes are visible in this realism, sometimes almost symbolist, in general, "Spring in Fialta" is a kind of quintessence of the writer's creative attitude "as it is" - a attitude carried through years and years...