Abstract
This paper deals with the opposition between French passe compose and passe simple in fictional and some other texts. The author focuses on two questions in relation to the notions of island/isolation , namely the function and interpretation of the passe simple inserted into a discoursive context, and the use of the passe compose as a narrative tense, by commenting examples from Camus, Rousseau and Proust. It is argued that such phenomena are closely connected with psychological distance in the case of the passe simple , and with narrative disjunction in the case of the passe compose .
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