Satan este personajul principal al unor romane, piese de teatru şi poveşti. în aceste lucrări, scriitorii romantici îl prezintă dintr-o nouă perspectivă: ca personaj ambiguu, în sensul că el combină caracteristicele biblice ale diavolului-seducător cu cele ale unui personaj din folclor. întâlnim acest fel de a-l prezenta pe Satan şi la N. Gogol şi M. Bulgakov, mai cu seamă, în romanul acestuia „Meşterul şi Margareta", sub chipul lui Voland.

In fiction literature from different periods the satan became repeatedly the main character in novels, dramas and stories. The romantic writers looked at him from a new point of view. In their novels, fairy tales, the Satan is an ambiguous character. He combines the features of the biblical devileducer with those that predominated over him in folklore. These feathures influenced the poetics of N. 4. Gogol and M.A. Bulgakov, especially the forming of Voland's character in his novel »The Master and Margarita«. In the creation of both Russian writers the Satan keeps his dual character, but he acquires some other peculiarities as well that are tipical only of him in these works.