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An early reader of Gogol’s works, Bulgakov tried by all ways to imitate him as a man and a writer. Young Bulgakov mainly appreciated Gogol’s comical issues but in the 1930s, Gogol became for him the archetype of the rejected and cursed artist, a projection of his own tragedy. The Master and Margarita repeats several of Gogol’s main patterns: significant names, the use of the “figure of fiction” in order to depict Woland, which generates a link between him and Cicikov. Therefore, according to the Symbolists’ interpretation, both of them embody Evil as inexistence. As in Dead Souls, the difference between the Living and the Dead vanishes. Both texts are unachieved which virtually allows a possible continuation.