Lemony Snicket Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Lemony Snicket is a pen name of author and occasional accordionist Daniel Handler. Under it he has written a series of children's books known as A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Handler has also released a book entitled Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. The U.S. hardcover edition of this book has a reversible dust jacket so that it can be "disguised" as The Luckiest Kids in the World Book 1!: The Pony Party by "Loney M. Setnick".

Mr. Snicket himself is an ingenious creation. Handler originally came up with the name as a pseudonym when he found himself unwilling to place his real name on the mailing lists of several right-wing organisations he was researching for one of his novels. It became something of an in-joke with his friends, who were known to order pizzas under the name. When he rather unexpectedly found himself writing a series of children's books, he decided to use the Snicket name to add an air of mystery to proceedings; Lemony Snicket is an elusive figure. Handler has a considerable amount of fun with the Snicket character in the author biography sections of the books, in a page at the end of every book where Snicket makes complicated arrangements for the delivery of the manuscript of the next book to his publisher, on the Lemony Snicket website and in Snicket's Unauthorized Autobiography. He is described, among other things, as having been born beside the sea and now living underneath it, as a distinguished scholar, and as having been stripped of the Honorable Mention and the Grey Ribbon. Photographs of Snicket are shown, but are always taken from behind, except that in The Unauthorized Autobiography there is a photograph of the crew of a ship, with a caption indicating that Snicket is in the photo, but the face of the sailor said to be Snicket has been mysteriously torn from the photograph.

Additionally, about once per book, the narrator provides the reader with a glimpse of his life. We know that he...

• plays the accordion
• had been chased by an angry mob for 16 miles
• attended a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter, to gain access to his beloved Beatrice, who was dressed as a dragonfly
• once had a sword-fight with a television repairman

To fill time at the end of the first audio book, read by Tim Curry, is an interview supposed to be with "Mr. Snicket" but apparently he is not home, and the interview proceeds with "Mr. Handler," who confuses himself with his "employer" throughout the interview. To avoid answering any tough questions, Handler invokes a psychological device by which a the response to a query can be so horrible that it seems to the listener as if it was not been said at all.

External link

• The Official Lemony Snicket website

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