雷蒙尼·史尼奇

雷蒙·斯尼奇（英语：Lemony Snicket）是美国作家丹尼尔·韩德勒的笔名，也是《波特莱尔大遇险》系列小说的角色之一。故事中的雷蒙·斯尼奇是一名作家、研究员，秘密组织V.F.D.的成员。

丹尼尔·韩德勒使用雷蒙·斯尼奇这个笔名推出了《波特莱尔大遇险》系列的十三部小说，以及《雷蒙·斯尼奇：未授权自传》、《墨渍镇谜团》系列等相关作品。

角色

雷蒙·斯尼奇有两名兄弟姊妹：凯特和贾克斯。曾在蒙堤山脉的V.F.D.总部学习，毕业后在《小道消息日报》工作。他曾经爱上一位名叫贝雅丽采的女子，与对方订了婚，但最终贝雅丽采却出于不明原因而与雷蒙尼分手。

雷蒙·斯尼奇出于个人及法律原因而调查波特莱尔三姐弟在双亲身亡后所遭遇的不幸经历。

改编

在2004年电影《雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险》中，由裘德·洛饰演。

在2017至2019年播出的电视剧《雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险》中，由帕特里克·华博顿饰演。该剧中，雷蒙·斯尼奇扮演着较为重要的角色，他无处不在，讲解剧情和角色的背景，还时常劝观众不要再看下去。

Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler (born 1970) and a fictional character of his creation. Handler has published various children's books under the name, including A Series of Unfortunate Events (the first of which was published in 1999), which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a 2004 film and Netflix TV series from 2017 to 2019 of the same name. Lemony Snicket also serves as the in-universe author who investigates and re-tells the story of the Baudelaire orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Snicket is also the subject of a fictional autobiography titled Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. Further telling of Snicket's adventures can be found in the four-part children's series All the Wrong Questions, as well as a pamphlet titled 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket (released in promotion of The End). Other works by Snicket include The Baby in 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 while James Henderson plays him physically. He documents the events of the film on a typewriter from inside a clock tower.

In the video game based on the film, his voice is provided by Tim Curry. In the Netflix series, Snicket is interpreted as a mysterious and omniscient narrator chronicling the events of the Baudelaire children in a manner similar to Rod Serling, and is portrayed by Patrick Warburton.

Characterization

In A Series of Unfortunate Events, the narrator, Lemony Snicket, is given his own backstory. He is said to have come from a family of three children. His brother Jacques (who was murdered in The Vile Village) and sister Kit were V.F.D. members and friends of the Baudelaire parents. Both Jacques and Kit appear as supporting characters in the books. He also knew Count Olaf in his early life, as the two attended school together. As a child, he was kidnapped and inducted as a "neophyte" into V.F.D., where he was trained in rhetoric and sent on seemingly pointless missions, while all connections were severed from his former life, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit (who were also kidnapped and inducted). Consequently, Snicket attended a V.F.D.-run boarding school in his youth with several other characters from the series. He later received tuition at a V.F.D. headquarters in the Mortmain Mountains and, after graduation, was employed by a newspaper called The Daily Punctilio as an obituary spell-checker and theater critic.

At some point, Lemony became an orphan at an early age, as he stated in The Hero of the Story that he had no parents. This implied that Jacob and his wife are deceased.

As a character, Snicket is a harried, troubled writer and photographer who is falsely accused of various felonies and continuously hunted by the police and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the secret organization V.F.D. (Volunteer Fire Department). In the organization, he met and fell in love with an associate named Beatrice, to whom he got engaged. He was falsely accused of murder and arson. Eventually, the fallacies grew so much that The Daily Punctilio reported his death. Beatrice later moved on and married Bertrand Baudelaire, becoming the mother of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, the protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Fourteen years thereafter, Beatrice and Bertrand were supposedly murdered in a house fire, leaving the Baudelaire children orphaned and then pursued by Snicket's former associate, Count Olaf. Snicket feels indebted to his former fiancée and embarks on a quest to chronicle the lives of the Baudelaire children until they are old enough to face the world's troubles on their own.