Lineages
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Bring any book to the centre: what it draws on is to its left, what draws on it to its right.
Of its time
It draws on
Hamsun's starving writer roams Kristiania as Raskolnikov roams St Petersburg: feverish, proud, talking to himself, his hunger and his pride feeding each other. Dostoevsky was one of Hamsun's great influences.
No later work in the atlas draws on it yet.
Of its places
The whole web
Every line in the atlas, by place or by time. Tap a work to bring it to the centre.