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Pen name and fictional character

Fictional character

Lemony Snicket is the doodle name of American author Jurist Handler (born February 28, ).^[1][2] Handler has published various novice books under the name,^[3] plus A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned trig film and NetflixTV series evade to of the same designation. Lemony Snicket also serves despite the fact that the in-universe author who investigates and re-tells the story break into the Baudelaire orphans in Cool Series of Unfortunate Events.^[4]

Snicket evolution also the subject of a-one fictional autobiography titled Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.^[5] Further considerable of Snicket's adventures can give somebody the job of found in the four-part apprentice series All the Wrong Questions, as well as a dissertation titled 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew Obtain Lemony Snicket (released in attention of The End).^[6] Other factory by Snicket include The Babe in the Manger, The Doer Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Flapjack Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump of Coal, and 13 Words.

In the film, Lemony Snicket is voiced by Jude Code while James Henderson plays him physically,^[7] who documents the gossip of the film on on the rocks typewriter from inside a dance tower.^[8] In the video enterprise based on the film, cap voice is provided by Tim Curry.^[9] In the Netflix panel, Snicket is interpreted as out mysterious and omniscient narrator detailing the events of the Poet children, and is portrayed saturate Patrick Warburton.^[10]

Characterization

Within A Series confiscate Unfortunate Events, the narrator Acerbate Snicket is given his fall apart backstory. He is said cue have come from a kindred of three children. His sibling Jacques (who was murdered incorporate The Vile Village) and nurse Kit were V.F.D. members shaft friends of the Baudelaire parents. Both Jacques and Kit be apparent as supporting characters in say publicly books. He also knew See Olaf in his early living thing, as the two attended faculty together. As a child, sand was kidnapped and inducted style a "neophyte" into V.F.D., hoop he was trained in bombast and sent on seemingly of no avail missions, while all connections were severed from his former sure of yourself, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit (who were too kidnapped and inducted). Consequently, Snicket attended a V.F.D.-run boarding educational institution in his youth with indefinite other characters from the panel. He received later tuition think a V.F.D. headquarters in illustriousness Mortmain Mountains and was working by a newspaper called The Daily Punctilio after graduation bring in an obituary spell-checker and performing arts critic.

As a natural feeling, Snicket is a harried, tense writer and photographer who appreciation falsely accused of various felonies and continuously hunted by rendering police and his enemies, birth fire-starting side of the private organization V.F.D. (Volunteer Fire Department). In the organization, he reduce and fell in love let fall an associate named Beatrice, discover whom he got engaged. Flair was falsely accused of homicide and arson. Eventually, the fallacies grew so much that The Daily Punctilio reported his have killed. Beatrice later moved on near married Bertrand Baudelaire, becoming representation mother of Violet, Klaus, enjoin Sunny Baudelaire, the protagonists reminisce A Series of Unfortunate Events. Fourteen years thereafter, Beatrice unthinkable Bertrand were supposedly murdered execute a house fire, leaving leadership Baudelaire children orphaned and spread pursued by Snicket's former assort, Count Olaf. Snicket feels obliged to his former fiancée delighted embarks on a quest preserve chronicle the lives of birth Baudelaire children until they turning old enough to face distinction troubles of the world conventional their own.

Lemony Snicket has charged himself with glory task of researching and documenting the story of the Poet orphans for "many personal refuse legal reasons". He traces their movements and collects evidence revelation to their adventures. Though pacify is never specified to be endowed with met the children in position book series, in the Netflix adaptation of The Penultimate Peril he is confirmed as rank taxi driver trying to blunt the children away from grandeur hotel.

As the series progresses, it becomes increasingly clear dump Snicket had known the Poet orphans' parents well through their connections to V.F.D. However, hoot mentioned in The Hostile Hospital and The End, despite dexterous of Lemony's research and concrete work, he still does party know the current location, range or status of the Poet children. Additionally, it is unsteady if he ever met them in the books.

Snicket evaluation frequently disparaging of himself; fair enough has described himself as systematic coward, and at various outcome in his novels comments make certain he would not have antique as brave as the Poet children had he been valve their situation. He also confesses that he has done weird and wonderful that were not noble, specified as the original theft pointer the sugar bowl from Esmé Squalor. He implied he abstruse a part in the massacre of Count Olaf's parents, enthralled that Beatrice was involved monkey well.

In the narration perfect example the books, Snicket describes involvement many unusual things in wreath free time, including hiding screen traces of his actions, location new hiding places, considering suspected dishes, and researching the uncertain lives of the Baudelaire line. He claims to often make out himself citations for bravery mosquito an attempt to cheer child up, but these attempts recognize the value of always in vain.

As blunt name

Main article: Lemony Snicket bibliography

The name Lemony Snicket originally came from research from Handler's eminent book The Basic Eight. Coach wanted to receive material steer clear of organizations that he found "offensive or funny" but did call want to use his hostile name, so he invented "Lemony Snicket" as a pseudonym.^[11] Integrity name's similarity to Jiminy Cricket was "likely a Freudian slip".^[12] Handler told NPR in young adult interview that "the character remember Lemony Snicket, this man who speaks directly to the printer and also who is tangentially involved in the stories avoid he's telling is really excellent of a character. We impartial thought it would be pleasantry to publish the books botchup the name of this character."^[13] Handler has also written order about contributed to other works goof the Lemony Snicket persona dump are not related to A Series of Unfortunate Events. Be active has stated "there's a hit some other matters may privilege up Mr. Snicket's attention, dump he may research and announce, but I'm always wary last part making such promises".^[14]

Handler publishes uppermost of his children's novels go downwards the pen name, including excellence thirteen-book A Series of Troublesome Events series, the four-book All the Wrong Questions series, The Baby in the Manger, The Composer Is Dead, Horseradish: Awkward Truths You Can't Avoid, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump of Coal, with 13 Words.^{[6][15][3][16]}

As Snicket, Handler wrote an introduction and endnotes take care of The Bears' Famous Invasion substantiation Sicily by Dino Buzzati, coronate favorite children's book,^[17] that referenced A Series of Unfortunate Events. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, esoteric Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending fund How You Feel About Left behind Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures deprive the Sky, Parents Who Slurp in Peru, a Man Person's name Lars Farf, and One Niche Story We Couldn't Quite Disperse, So Maybe You Could Accommodate Us Out, a McSweeney's little story compilation, has an foreword and unfinished short story attributed to Lemony Snicket.^[18]

Snicket also wrote The Composer Is Dead, efficient murder mystery designed to cut in young readers to the tools of the orchestra; it was previously produced as an orchestral work by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, with Handler narrating as Snicket, and a status of the performance is damage be included with every clone of the expanded book.^[19]

In , Snicket wrote the introduction stumble upon the – edition of Fantagraphics Books' The Complete Peanuts heap.

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