Compare with Giorgio Viola's revolutionaries and their "proclamations."
Political action is highly related to speech in Nostromo, indeed almost
indistinguishable from it. Both spring from the nature of the dream-ideal, which
seeks to impose a subjective world-view upon the world. Seen in this light, physical
action is just an extension of language. Literarily, Conrad mirrors the wars of
Costaguana with a kind of war for the right to narrate the novel. Both Captain
Mitchell and Decoud interrupt the official narrator with long surrogate narrations
of their own, which present opposing views of the same events. "History"
consists of endless attempts to be its writer, to assume the mantle of "dictator,"
to pre-empt the megaphone of omniscient narration.