Synopsis
By chance, Victor, the narrator, encounters Nina, a fellow exile, at Fialta, a fictional Mediterranean town on the Riviera. Both are married, and they had met on several occasions over the years since their first kiss in Russia, “at the margins of my life”. She is attractive, seemingly aloof, and ephemeral, and it appears that he harbors amatory feelings for her, but he lacks the full conviction of the feeling of true love. The story recalls past encounters, and relates Victor's deprecatory and possibly jealous views of Ferdinand, her husband, an “arrogant” Franco-Hungarian writer, a “weaver of words”. He declines to join Nina and her husband on a car ride. Shortly thereafter Victor learns that Nina has died in a car crash.
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