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The author tells us
about her love of all things gothic and her new novel
“I seem to be
addicted to using gothic tropes. They’re just the things that I naturally
want to explore. There’s the relationship between the present and the past:
for me, history by itself is not interesting. It’s the way it refuses to
disappear from the present, and the way secrets from the past tend to come up
into the future. There are issues of identity, and anxieties around women and
their place in the world. And then there are labyrinths, whether they are
real ones like the maze in The Forgotten Garden, or just the
puzzle-like nature of my novels.”
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Lemony Snicket's
creator Daniel Handler reveals all about his new series
Handler started to
plan his All the Wrong Questions series, which introduces a young
Lemony Snicket, while he was still writing A Series of Unfortunate Events,
which was his take on gothic novels: “At that time, I began to take interest
in film noir and writers such as Raymond Chandler, and I started to think
about Lemony Snicket as a young man participating in a ‘noiry’ world. So much
noir takes place in blue-collar towns at various stages of economic collapse
which is tied to the moral collapse of the characters, and it felt pregnant
with possibilities."
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