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
The novel opens with lines from Goethe's Faust, about the power that always wills evil and always works good, and its devil, Woland, takes his name from Goethe's Mephistopheles. Margarita, who strikes a bargain with the devil for love, is Bulgakov's Gretchen.
Yeshua's interrogation by Pontius Pilate answers Ivan Karamazov's 'Grand Inquisitor': again a man of power faces a gentle prisoner who will not defend himself, and the question is what truth can do against power.
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.