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
Dostoevsky's first novel picks up Gogol's poor copying clerk. Makar Devushkin, a clerk himself, reads The Overcoat and is hurt by it, and the book answers Gogol by giving such a man an inner life and a voice of his own.
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.