[bksvol-discuss] Re: lemony Snicket releases 13 and final book
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:28:50 -0700 (PDT)
Wonderful article, Shelley. If I ever read any of the
Lemony Snicket books, they'll have more meaning for
me. smile. I think I helped validate one.
Cindy
--- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Wouldn't it be great if the kids who are subscribers
> to this service could
> get their mits on this book next week. I don't have
> the money or would be
> buying it, is anyone game?
>
> And by the by Lemony Snickett is actually Daniel
> Handler, see the below page
> from NPR and enjoy the story and interview by the
> author.
>
> Ironically perhaps, but the last book is titled THE
> END, smile.
>
> This is a huge series and definitely a must for
> Bookshare.
>
> From:
>
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6259842
>
> Lemony Snicket Reaches 'The End'
>
> Listen to this story...
> Morning Edition,
> October 13, 2006 · Children across the country have
> been waiting anxiously
> for Friday the 13th. They've been waiting for the
> release of The End by
> Lemony
> Snicket. It's the 13th and final book in A Series of
> Unfortunate Events.
>
> The hugely popular series tells the story of the
> Baudelaire children, and
> the many horrible things that happen to them as
> orphans.
>
> Daniel Handler, the real author of the series,
> speaks with Steve Inskeep.
> A Gruesome Guide to Lemony
>
> A Series of Unfortunate Literary Allusions
>
> by Melody Joy Kramer
> The first Baudelaire book.
>
> The Baudelaire orphans draw their name from another
> Baudelaire who had it
> really, really bad -- the French poet who wrote The
> Flowers of Evil.
> HarperCollins
>
> NPR.org,
> October 12, 2006 · A Series of Unfortunate Events is
> chock full of evil
> henchmen, evil henchwomen, and harpooned victims. It
> also contains a series
> of literary
> allusions, which here means references to "authors,
> poets and famous people
> who are now corpses." Even if you have an ocular
> tattoo stamped on your
> ankle,
> these references may have escaped your eyes the
> first time around.
>
> The Good Guys:
>
> The Baudelaire Orphans: They are named after the
> 19th-century French poet
> Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire is most famous for
> his morbid poetry
> collection,
> "Les Fleurs du mal" (The Flowers of Evil).
>
> Baudelaire's own life was a series of financial and
> personal disasters. He
> was prosecuted on obscenity and blasphemy charges,
> suffered a stroke, was
> placed
> in a sanatorium, contracted syphilis, and became an
> opium addict. Plus, he
> was in love with his own mother.
>
> Klaus and Sunny: The two younger Baudelaire siblings
> bear the names of an
> unfortunate couple in Rhode Island. Wealthy
> businessman Claus von Bulow was
> found
> guilty of injecting his wife, Sunny, with a deadly
> insulin cocktail. His
> verdict was later overturned. The story later became
> a film: Reversal of
> Forture.
>
> Violet: Famous nonshrinking violets include the
> murderer Nozière, the
> Lindbergh-baby-kidnapping suspect Sharpe and the
> wretched blueberry in Roald
> Dahl's
> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A violet ray was
> a popular medical device
> in the early 20th century, based on the coil
> technology developed by Nikolas
> Tesla, Violet Baudelaire's favorite inventor.
>
> Isadora and Duncan Quagmire: The first names of two
> of the three Quagmire
> triplets are a reminder of the hazards of being
> fashionable. Dancer Isadora
> Duncan
> died when her fashionable scarf caught in a car
> wheel and the car kept
> moving. Also, her children drowned, her love life
> was disastrous, her
> husband committed
> suicide and she repeatedly went into debt.
>
> Beatrice: She is the dedicatee of the Snicket books.
> Baudelaire actually
> wrote a poem entitled "La Beatrice." The first four
> lines:
>
> In charred and ashen fields without a leaf,
>
> While I alone to Nature told my grief,
>
> I sharpened, as I went, like any dart,
>
> My thought upon the grindstone of my heart...
>
> The dedications in each novel also pay homage to
> Dante's Divine Comedy, in
> which a woman named Beatrice appears as Dante's
> guide through heaven.
> Dante's
> fictional Beatrice was based on Dante's muse -- also
> named Beatrice -- who
> died in 1290 at the age of 24. Tragic.
>
> In addition, 15th-century Italian aristocrat
> Beatrice Cenci was beheaded
> after successfully plotting to kill her husband with
> a nail, Shakespearean
> Beatrice
> was an orphan in Much Ado About Nothing and
> 20th-century Beatrice Straight
> was the paranormal investigator in Poltergeist.
>
> Mr. Poe: The coughing banker, who has two sons named
> Edgar and Allan, is
> most definitely named after the
> always-hacking-because-he-had-consumption
> poet,
> who had a penchant for morbid tales.
>
> The Bad Guys:
>
> Count Olaf: The arch villain of the books could be
> named after either Olaf
> Tryggvason, an ancient pillager and murderer in
> 11th-century Norway, or a
> character
> in Theophile Gautier's gothic fantastique Avatar. Of
> course, the most famous
> Count in literature is none other than Dracula,
> based on Vlad the Impaler.
> Count Olaf does not have fangs but his weapon of
> choice is an
> impaling-friendly harpoon.
>
> Stephano: The first of Count Olaf's many disguises
> takes his name from a
> drunken character who plots to kill Prospero in
> Shakespeare?s The Tempest.
>
> Dr. Georgina Orwell: The woman who hypnotizes Klaus
> most certainly resembles
> her namesake, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm.
> Her hypnosis methods are
> examples of a totalitarian Orwellian regime trying
> to make everyone think
> the same way.
>
> Vice Principal Nero: He is a violinist who makes the
> children sit through
> six-hour concerts. Roman Emperor Nero supposedly
> "fiddled while Rome
> burned."
>
> Esme Squalor: Count Olaf's girlfriend and the 6th
> most important financial
> adviser in the city draws her name from J.D.
> Salinger?s short story, "For
> Esme
> -- With Love and Squalor."
>
> Coach Genghis: The terrible gym teacher who makes
> students run laps is
> clearly connected to Khan, the ferocious Mongol
> military leader who
> conquered most
> of Asia.
>
> Other Astounding Allusions:
>
> Beverly and Elliot: Violet and Klaus pick these
> pseudonyms when they visit
> Madam Lulu's carnival. Jeremy Irons plays Elliot and
> Beverly Mantle in the
> 1988
> horror film Dead Ringers a movie with lots and lots
> of blood and gore.
>
> Caligari Carnival: Madam Lulu's carnival is named
> after The Cabinet of Dr.
> Caligari, a silent movie about a string of murders
> committed in Germany.
>
> Hugo and Colette: The hunchback and the
> contortionist in the carnival are
> named after authors Victor Hugo and Colette.
>
> Nevermore Tree: "A poem drops beneath its leaves /
> Sent there by a flying
> crow / Not a raven as in Poe"
>
> Plath Pass: The orphans have a hard time getting
> through this pass, named
> after the poet who committed suicide by sticking her
> head in an oven.
>
> Prufrock Prepatory School: The boarding school where
> the Baudelaires are
> sent pays homage to T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song
> of J. Alfred Prufrock,"
> which
> opens with a verse from Dante's Inferno.
>
> The Ophelia Bank: Ophelia drowns by the riverbanks
> in Hamlet.
>
> Sontag Shore: The shore pays tribute to Susan, noted
> critic and activist.
>
> Queequeg: This tattooed South Sea Islander has a
> penchant for harpoons in
> Melville's Moby Dick.
>
> Virginia Woolfsnake: Montgomery Montgomery's
> slithery creature "should never
> be allowed near a typewriter." Which is exactly what
> Count Olaf would say
> about
> Lemony Snicket.
>
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>
> Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
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