In Chapter 27 of Closing Time, Yossarian goes with former detective sergeant Larry McBride down a staircase in the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal, to a metal closet with a false back and hidden door, through which they then journey to a subterranean realm influenced both by accounts of the classical Greek underworld and Dante's Inferno (1321). There they view a number of writers, including William Saroyan, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, James Joyce, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath — an assortment of figures that reflect Heller's recommended reading list. Not only does Yossarian meet authors but also some of their characters, such as Thomas Mann's Gustav Aschenbach, from.....
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