A Fleeting Glory is a novel by writer and publisher Joan Salas set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, in which Salas fought on the Republican side. The novel depicts war in all its brutal complexity and presents no clear partisan message. As the great Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo pointed out in his introduction to one of the novel's many editions, Salas "foundes his thinking not on certain facts, but on a life exposed to the absurdity of the world, to the processions of blood, death and injustice." The novel is divided into four parts, but its center remains the war presented from the perspective of the vanquished. The work was published in the fifties of the twentieth century and was subjected to censorship in fascist Spain. It was not published in its entirety in the writer’s homeland until 1971, and because of the strength of the novel, its author was compared to Dostoyevsky.