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- Uncle Silas, (L'oncle Silas) és una novel·la gòtica de Sheridan Le Fanu. Escrita en 1864 a partir d'un relat breu anterior del mateix autor, és una de les obres més conegudes de l'autor. El seu èxit ha propiciat l'adaptació al cinema en 1947 i la seva influència és visible en moltes novel·les del gènere gòtic posterior. (ca)
- Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike. It is an early example of the locked-room mystery subgenre, rather than a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist, philosopher and Christian mystic. Like many of Le Fanu's novels, Uncle Silas grew out of an earlier short story, in this case "A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess" (1839), which he also published as "The Murdered Cousin" in the collection Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (1851). While this earlier story was set in Ireland, the novel's action takes place in Derbyshire; the author Elizabeth Bowen was the first to identify a distinctly Irish subtext to the novel, however, in spite of its English setting. It was first serialized in the Dublin University Magazine in 1864, under the title Maud Ruthyn and Uncle Silas, and appeared in December of the same year as a three-volume novel from the London publisher Richard Bentley. Several changes were made from the serialization to the volume edition, such as resolving the inconsistencies of names. (en)
- Lo Zio Silas (Uncle Silas) è un romanzo gotico vittoriano scritto dal romanziere anglo-irlandese Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Al suo interno si possono ravvisare elementi di thriller, ma il romanzo è noto anche come uno dei primi esempi di “enigma della camera chiusa”. Non è propriamente un romanzo del soprannaturale (nonostante un paio di punti ambigui), ma dimostra un forte interesse per l'occulto e per le idee di Swedenborg. (it)
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- Uncle Silas, (L'oncle Silas) és una novel·la gòtica de Sheridan Le Fanu. Escrita en 1864 a partir d'un relat breu anterior del mateix autor, és una de les obres més conegudes de l'autor. El seu èxit ha propiciat l'adaptació al cinema en 1947 i la seva influència és visible en moltes novel·les del gènere gòtic posterior. (ca)
- Lo Zio Silas (Uncle Silas) è un romanzo gotico vittoriano scritto dal romanziere anglo-irlandese Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Al suo interno si possono ravvisare elementi di thriller, ma il romanzo è noto anche come uno dei primi esempi di “enigma della camera chiusa”. Non è propriamente un romanzo del soprannaturale (nonostante un paio di punti ambigui), ma dimostra un forte interesse per l'occulto e per le idee di Swedenborg. (it)
- Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike. It is an early example of the locked-room mystery subgenre, rather than a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist, philosopher and Christian mystic. (en)
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