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
Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart against books like Conrad's, which he later called 'an offensive and deplorable book': Africa seen from a steamer as darkness. His novel tells the coming of the Europeans from inside an Igbo village, with its own law, language and history.
No later work in the atlas draws on it yet.
The whole web
Every line in the atlas, by place or by time. Tap a work to bring it to the centre.