A maverick prankster

This article attempts to show Christopher Moore as a new entrant on the horizon of black humor. He has written more than a dozen novels sprinkled with a dose of black humor and other tools of satire especially pastiche. His literary tenor is queer, shocking and out of the ordinary. ‘A Dirty Job’ and ‘Fool’ are two of his explosively funny novels. In ‘A Dirty Job’ Christopher Moore uses pastiche to the extreme. He laughs at ‘death’ and treats it with a pedestrian distain. There is nothing hoary about death. It would seem that ‘death’ were common day to day affair; in a cunning way Christopher Moore attempts to describe this. There is no continuity or pattern in his novels. He highlights the fragmentation in our society. This article is about how Christopher Moore nonchalantly describes hierarchical systems and puts the high and the low, employer and the employee, man and divine side by side. This article tries to explain that Christopher Moore is a changeling. He is evaporating as a postmodern scribe and condensing back into something new. He challenges in fact the futility and the concept of postmodern philosophy. It would appear that Christopher Moore is constantly trying to escape from the cocoon of postmodernism and expand into a brilliant butterfly of hope and faith. May be he is experimenting with a new mode of literary thought.