Lineages
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Start from a classic and follow its line, one work at a time, across the map.
What it draws on
Nikolai Gogol, AD 1842
Dostoevsky's early novella is his most Gogolian work: a timid Petersburg clerk, a comedy that turns into nightmare, and a subtitle, 'A Petersburg Poem', that echoes Gogol's calling Dead Souls a poem.
Source: Wikipedia, The Double (Dostoevsky novel)
“The Double is the most Gogolesque of Dostoevsky's works; its subtitle "A Petersburg Poem" echoes that of Gogol's Dead Souls.” Read it there
No later work in the atlas draws on The Double yet.