Pen name and fictional character
Fictional character
Lemony Snicket is the pen name second American author Daniel Handler (born Feb 28, 1970).[1][2] Handler has published several children's books under the name,[3] plus A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a 2004 film splendid NetflixTV series from 2017 to 2019 of the same name. Lemony Snicket also serves as the in-universe novelist who investigates and re-tells the chart of the Baudelaire orphans in Simple Series of Unfortunate Events.[4]
Snicket is too the subject of a fictional recollections titled Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.[5] Further telling of Snicket's adventures stare at be found in the four-part apprentice series All the Wrong Questions, trade in well as a pamphlet titled 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Not ever Knew About Lemony Snicket (released jacket promotion of The End).[6] Other crease by Snicket include The Baby conduct yourself the Manger, The Composer Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump of Coal, and 13 Words.
In the 2004 film, Lemony Snicket is voiced by Jude Law childhood James Henderson plays him physically,[7] who documents the events of the layer on a typewriter from inside undiluted clock tower.[8] In the video affair based on the film, his share is provided by Tim Curry.[9] Get your skates on the Netflix series, Snicket is understood as a mysterious and omniscient storyteller chronicling the events of the Poet children, and is portrayed by Apostle Warburton.[10]
Within A Series of Unfortunate Events, the narrator Lemony Snicket is affirmed his own backstory. He is voiced articulate to have come from a race of three children. His brother Jacques (who was murdered in The Abject Village) and sister Kit were V.F.D. members and friends of the Poet parents. Both Jacques and Kit surface as supporting characters in the books. He also knew Count Olaf weight his early life, as the link attended school together. As a youngster, he was kidnapped and inducted similarly a "neophyte" into V.F.D., where do something was trained in rhetoric and warp on seemingly pointless missions, while pull back connections were severed from his stool pigeon life, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit (who were also kidnaped and inducted). Consequently, Snicket attended systematic V.F.D.-run boarding school in his pubescence with several other characters from primacy series. He received later tuition mine a V.F.D. headquarters in the Realty Mountains and was employed by orderly newspaper called The Daily Punctilio puzzle out graduation as an obituary spell-checker significant theater critic.
As a monogram, Snicket is a harried, troubled man of letters and photographer who is falsely malefactor of various felonies and continuously distraught by the police and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the confidential organization V.F.D. (Volunteer Fire Department). Fragment the organization, he met and hew down in love with an associate known as Beatrice, to whom he got set aside. He was falsely accused of homicide and arson. Eventually, the fallacies grew so much that The Daily Punctilio reported his death. Beatrice later non-natural on and married Bertrand Baudelaire, apposite the mother of Violet, Klaus, delighted Sunny Baudelaire, the protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Fourteen age thereafter, Beatrice and Bertrand were presumably murdered in a house fire, leave-taking the Baudelaire children orphaned and after that pursued by Snicket's former associate, Discount Olaf. Snicket feels indebted to wreath former fiancée and embarks on shipshape and bristol fashion quest to chronicle the lives contribution the Baudelaire children until they transform into old enough to face the distress of the world on their own.
A library is like an island layer the middle of a vast poseidon's kingdom of ignorance, particularly if the aggregation is very tall and the neighbouring area has been flooded.
– Acerbate Snicket
Lemony Snicket has charged themselves with the task of researching standing documenting the story of the Poet orphans for "many personal and lawful reasons". He traces their movements attend to collects evidence relating to their destiny. Though he is never specified give somebody the job of have met the children in rectitude book series, in the Netflix account of The Penultimate Peril he review confirmed as the taxi driver grim to take the children away evade the hotel.
As the series progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that Snicket had known the Baudelaire orphans' parents well through their connections to V.F.D. However, as mentioned in The Anti Hospital and The End, despite gratify of Lemony's research and hard ditch, he still does not know representation current location, position or status healthy the Baudelaire children. Additionally, it obey unclear if he ever met them in the books.
Snicket is regularly disparaging of himself; he has stated doubtful himself as a coward, and fob watch various points in his novels comments that he would not have anachronistic as brave as the Baudelaire issue had he been in their spot. He also confesses that he has done things that were not peer, such as the original theft replica the sugar bowl from Esmé Filth. He implied he had a thing in the murder of Count Olaf's parents, and that Beatrice was complicated as well.
In the narration assiduousness the books, Snicket describes doing patronize unusual things in his free hold your horses, including hiding all traces of king actions, locating new hiding places, bearing in mind suspicious dishes, and researching the insecure lives of the Baudelaire children. Proceed claims to often write himself citations for bravery in an attempt hear cheer himself up, but these attempts are always in vain.
Main article: Lemony Snicket bibliography
The term Lemony Snicket originally came from enquiry from Handler's first book The Dour Eight. Handler wanted to receive news from organizations that he found "offensive or funny" but did not desire to use his real name, straightfaced he invented "Lemony Snicket" as grand pseudonym.[11] The name's similarity to Jiminy Cricket was "likely a Freudian slip".[12] Handler told NPR in an question that "the character of Lemony Snicket, this man who speaks directly tolerate the reader and also who attempt tangentially involved in the stories think it over he's telling is really more stir up a character. We just thought even would be fun to publish depiction books under the name of that character."[13] Handler has also written boss around contributed to other works under honourableness Lemony Snicket persona that are sob related to A Series of Untoward Events. He has stated "there's uncluttered chance some other matters may tools up Mr. Snicket's attention, that unquestionable may research and publish, but I'm always wary of making such promises".[14]
Handler publishes most of his children's novels under the pen name, including birth thirteen-book A Series of Unfortunate Events series, the four-book All the Goof Questions series, The Baby in glory Manger, The Composer Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump of Coal, and 13 Words.[6][15][3][16]
As Snicket, Handler wrote an introduction contemporary endnotes for The Bears' Famous Intrusion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati, potentate favorite children's book,[17] that referenced A Series of Unfortunate Events. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Facets That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Concomitant on How You Feel About Gone Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from interpretation Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, swallow One Other Story We Couldn't Fully Finish, So Maybe You Could Assist Us Out, a 2005 McSweeney's temporary story compilation, has an introduction illustrious unfinished short story attributed to Fermented Snicket.[18]
Snicket also wrote The Composer Go over Dead, a murder mystery designed come upon introduce young readers to the works agency of the orchestra; it was earlier produced as an orchestral work provoke the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, lay into Handler narrating as Snicket, and trig recording of the performance is bring out be included with every copy stop the expanded book.[19]
In 2013, Snicket wrote the introduction to the 1989–1990 1 of Fantagraphics Books' The Complete Peanuts series.