Castellano Raimon Casellas (Barcelona, 1855 - Sant Joan de les Abadesses, 1910). Narrador, crítico de arte y periodista. Tuvo un influyente papel como teórico y crítico del Modernismo; divulgó la obra pictórica de maestros europeos que aportaban novedades formales. Como narrador rompió con la tradición decimonónica a través de Els sots feréstecs (1901), obra considerada la primera obra modernista, precursora del movimiento denominado Naturalismo Rural, que luego tuvo muchos seguidores. Casellas plantea en esta obra el fracaso del intelectual en el intento de regenerar la sociedad. Póstumamente, una selección de los artículos que Casellas había publicado en La Vanguardia se reunieron en dos volúmenes: Etapes estètiques (1916 y 1918), con prólogo de Eugeni d'Ors. English Raimon Casellas (Barcelona, 1855 - Sant Joan de les Abadesses, 1910) was a narrator, art critic and journalist. He had an influential role as a theoretician and critic of Modernism and he also made known the works of European artists who were introducing new formal elements at the time. As a novelist, he broke with the nineteenth-century traditions with his work Els sots feréstecs (The Wild Ravines) which is considered as the first Modernist novel and a forerunner of the rural naturalism school that subsequently had many followers. In this book Casellas deals with the failure of the intellectual in his attempts to regenerate society. A selection of articles on aesthetics and art criticism that he had written for La Vanguardia was posthumously published in two volumes under the title Etapes estètiques (Aesthetic Stages) (1916 and 1918) with a Prologue by Eugeni d'Ors.