. Four years after the publication of the said book, Coetzee won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, a proof of the great impact the book has made to the society. In fact, The Observer, a respected newspaper in the United States, named Disgrace as ???the greatest novel of the last 25 years??? which was written in the English language outside America (Gallaghe 1991). The novel centres on David Lurie, a South African professor of Communications— specializing in Romantic Literature. At the age of 52, he was demoted from being a professor of modern languages to adjunct professor of communications.