A Passing Glory is a novel by writer and publisher Joan Salas set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War that broke out in the 1930s, in which Salas fought on the Republican side. The novel depicts the war in all its brutal complexity and offers 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 “found[s] his thinking not on certain facts, but on a life exposed to... The absurdity of the world, and 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 defeated. The work was published in the 1950s 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, it was compared Its author is with Dostoyevsky
Young Salas Joan Salas was born in 1912 and fought with the Republicans during the war Spanish nationality in the 1930s, he is considered one of the most important writers and translators in the Catalan language and is considered one of the pioneers of publishing in this language. After the end of the Spanish Civil War, he lived in exile for nine years and then returned to focus his work on promoting written Catalan culture, and in this context he published his most important novel. “Transient glory.” Salas died in 1983 and is still highly regarded in Barcelona and throughout Catalan cultural circles.
