《等待野蛮人》是库切的第一部为自己赢得国际声誉的长篇小说。在小说中,帝国为了证实自己的存在,不断地扩充自己的疆土,并通过散播谣言,施加暴力,法律维护,欺瞒哄骗等手段来构建野蛮人的形象,从而打着合理正义的旗帜欺压,凌虐边疆土著人民。文章将运用后殖民理论,揭露帝国主义以构建他者的方式来证实自己存在的虚伪冷酷本质。 Waiting for the Barbarian is Coache’s first novel to win an international reputation for himself. In the novel, in order to prove his own existence, the Empire constantly expanded its territory and constructed an image of the savage by spreading rumors, imposing violence, safeguarding the law, deception and deceit, and oppressing and abusing the banner of fairness and justice Frontier indigenous people. The article will use the post-colonial theory to expose the hypocrisy essence of its existence by exposing the imperialists to construct the other.