In the novel Diary of a Bad Year, J.M. Coetzee, the Nobel Prize Laureate for literature in 2003, employs Senor C’s unreliable narration, ranging from misreport at the axis of facts, to misevaluation at the axis of values, to misinterpretation at the axis of knowledge and perception. By unreliable narration, the author attempts to defeat the reader’s desire to defer to the “moral authority”, encouraging the proactive reading and genuine thought in his reader.