![]() BOTH HANDLER AND SNICKET ARE STAUNCHLY ANTI-CENSORSHIP. ![]() His editor, Susan Rich, responded, “Isn’t that a good reason for writing the books you wish you had when you were 10?”Īfter giving it more thought, Handler decided to repurpose 90 pages of an unsuccessful mock-Gothic adult novel he had started years ago.Ĩ. “I said I really hate children’s books, that I thought all books for children were crap,” he says in a 2000 Salon article. The author felt that all novels for 10-year-old boys were either fantasy books or books about sports, and thus, had no interest in penning a kids' book himself-that is, until he was talked into it by his editors. HANDLER NEVER THOUGHT HE'D WRITE A KIDS' BOOK. ![]() Her name is thought to be inspired by both the poem “La Beatrice” byīaudelaire and Dante’s Beatrice, another ill-fated love interest who guided him through heaven in the Divine Comedy. AND THE BOOKS ARE DEDICATED TO SNICKET'S LOST LOVE.Įvery book in the series is dedicated to Beatrice-later revealed to be an ill-fated love interest of Snicket’s, whom he met as a boy, as well as the children's mother. He was prosecuted on obscenity and blasphemy charges, suffered a stroke, and dealt with an opium addiction. ![]() 2.THE PROTAGONISTS ARE NAMED FOR A TRAGIC REAL-LIFE FIGURE …ġ9th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire, whose own life was as dark as Violet, Klaus and Sunny’s. ![]()
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