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By way of epilogue, a fictional essay, an excerpt from the book Été 1965. Figures du hobo soon to be published by Nota bene in the “Grise” collection. A way to dive headfirst into the world of affects. The hobo is a fantasized figure of the 1960s. An obsessive figure who has haunted the narrator since his childhood in the suburbs of Saint-Léonard: a railroad track, train convoys, men jumping onboard in search of adventures. It was the carefree summer of 1965, with dreams of sovereignty, desires of independence for a little eight-year-old boy. Now an adult, I wanted to understand how American literature had built this fantasy. How Quebec stood out, with Jean-Jules Richard’s astonishing Journal d’un hobo (1965). How Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) extends this fantasy. But I also wanted to offer a more intimate understanding of its subject: thus, were born the fictions of the hobo.