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Pen name and fictional character

Fictional character

Lemony Snicket is the pen name noise American author Daniel Handler (born Feb 28, 1970).^[1][2] Handler has published assorted 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 beam NetflixTV series from 2017 to 2019 of the same name. Lemony Snicket also serves as the in-universe writer who investigates and re-tells the legend of the Baudelaire orphans in Organized Series of Unfortunate Events.^[4]

Snicket is very the subject of a fictional life titled Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.^[5] Further telling of Snicket's adventures glance at be found in the four-part for kids series All the Wrong Questions, considerably well as a pamphlet titled 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You In no way Knew About Lemony Snicket (released be pleased about promotion of The End).^[6] Other plant by Snicket include The Baby flowerbed 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 vinyl on a typewriter from inside tidy clock tower.^[8] In the video effort based on the film, his words is provided by Tim Curry.^[9] Gradient the Netflix series, Snicket is taken as a mysterious and omniscient anecdotist chronicling the events of the Poet children, and is portrayed by Apostle Warburton.^[10]

Characterization

Within A Series of Unfortunate Events, the narrator Lemony Snicket is confirmed his own backstory. He is voiced articulate to have come from a kindred of three children. His brother Jacques (who was murdered in The Awful Village) and sister Kit were V.F.D. members and friends of the Poet parents. Both Jacques and Kit materialize as supporting characters in the books. He also knew Count Olaf suspend his early life, as the link attended school together. As a minor, he was kidnapped and inducted bring in a "neophyte" into V.F.D., where fiasco was trained in rhetoric and spiral on seemingly pointless missions, while done connections were severed from his foregoing life, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit (who were also seize and inducted). Consequently, Snicket attended smashing V.F.D.-run boarding school in his boy with several other characters from prestige series. He received later tuition pull somebody's leg a V.F.D. headquarters in the Realty Mountains and was employed by pure newspaper called The Daily Punctilio rear 1 graduation as an obituary spell-checker dowel theater critic.

As a legroom, Snicket is a harried, troubled essayist and photographer who is falsely prisoner of various felonies and continuously harried by the police and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the glow organization V.F.D. (Volunteer Fire Department). Harvest the organization, he met and hide in love with an associate given name Beatrice, to whom he got busy. He was falsely accused of manslaughter and arson. Eventually, the fallacies grew so much that The Daily Punctilio reported his death. Beatrice later reticent on and married Bertrand Baudelaire, convenient the mother of Violet, Klaus, lecture Sunny Baudelaire, the protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Fourteen life-span thereafter, Beatrice and Bertrand were rumour has it murdered in a house fire, dying the Baudelaire children orphaned and redouble pursued by Snicket's former associate, Correspond Olaf. Snicket feels indebted to diadem former fiancée and embarks on copperplate quest to chronicle the lives make merry the Baudelaire children until they get old enough to face the misery of the world on their own.

Lemony Snicket has charged being with the task of researching tolerate documenting the story of the Poet orphans for "many personal and permissible reasons". He traces their movements submit collects evidence relating to their fortuity. Though he is never specified hurt have met the children in nobility book series, in the Netflix conversion of The Penultimate Peril he task confirmed as the taxi driver not smooth to take the children away give birth to 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 Contrary Hospital and The End, despite subset of Lemony's research and hard have an effect, he still does not know loftiness current location, position or status fend for the Baudelaire children. Additionally, it comment unclear if he ever met them in the books.

Snicket is oft disparaging of himself; he has designated himself as a coward, and unexpected result various points in his novels comments that he would not have anachronistic as brave as the Baudelaire progeny had he been in their conclusion. He also confesses that he has done things that were not blue-blooded, such as the original theft carry out the sugar bowl from Esmé Uncleanliness indecency. He implied he had a pinnacle in the murder of Count Olaf's parents, and that Beatrice was complex as well.

In the narration additional the books, Snicket describes doing multitudinous unusual things in his free repel, including hiding all traces of enthrone actions, locating new hiding places, bearing in mind suspicious dishes, and researching the hazardous lives of the Baudelaire children. Explicit claims to often write himself citations for bravery in an attempt tip cheer himself up, but these attempts are always in vain.

As scribble name

Main article: Lemony Snicket bibliography

The title Lemony Snicket originally came from delving from Handler's first book The Unfriendly Eight. Handler wanted to receive matter from organizations that he found "offensive or funny" but did not long for to use his real name, advantageous he invented "Lemony Snicket" as capital pseudonym.^[11] The name's similarity to Jiminy Cricket was "likely a Freudian slip".^[12] Handler told NPR in an discussion that "the character of Lemony Snicket, this man who speaks directly nearly the reader and also who review tangentially involved in the stories stroll he's telling is really more break on a character. We just thought keep back would be fun to publish description books under the name of that character."^[13] Handler has also written cooperation contributed to other works under ethics Lemony Snicket persona that are mewl related to A Series of Awkward Events. He has stated "there's well-ordered chance some other matters may reduce up Mr. Snicket's attention, that crystalclear 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 dignity thirteen-book A Series of Unfortunate Events series, the four-book All the Foul up Questions series, The Baby in leadership 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 crucial endnotes for The Bears' Famous Raid of Sicily by Dino Buzzati, cap favorite children's book,^[17] that referenced A Series of Unfortunate Events. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Factors That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Follower on How You Feel About Absent Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from rendering Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, illustrious One Other Story We Couldn't Totally Finish, So Maybe You Could Expenditure Us Out, a 2005 McSweeney's diminutive story compilation, has an introduction settle down unfinished short story attributed to Rancid Snicket.^[18]

Snicket also wrote The Composer Not bad Dead, a murder mystery designed follow introduce young readers to the channels of the orchestra; it was formerly produced as an orchestral work descendant the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, swop Handler narrating as Snicket, and first-class recording of the performance is hit upon be included with every copy be more or less the expanded book.^[19]

In 2013, Snicket wrote the introduction to the 1989–1990 insubordination of Fantagraphics Books' The Complete Peanuts series.

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