苏联作家爱伦堡说他“就像徒弟对师父一样崇敬”巴别尔。当年,他作为记者长期住在欧洲,几乎结交过同时代欧洲所有大作家、大艺术家。他说与曾以虔敬心情读过其作品、比他年长许多的作家,如高尔基、托马斯·曼、布宁、安德烈·别雷、亨利希·曼、乔伊斯等人相见,“看他们就像看 Ehrenburg, a Soviet writer, said he was “like an apprentice to Master,” said Babel. In that year, he lived in Europe as a journalist for a long time, and made almost all the big writers and big artists in Europe in the same period. He said that with past writers who had read their works with a godly mood, such as Gorky, Thomas Mann, Bunin, Andrea Bere, Henrichiman, Joyce and others, "Look at them like to see