The central character seduces the girl Bela but abandons her.  
This novel begins with one narrator leaving Tifis for the mountains.  The central character seduces the girl Bela but abandons her.  Other parts of the novel describe the protagonist through the eyes of his own journal revealed in the chapter 'Taman'.   The novel's main character is also described in great detail by his old army buddy Maksim Maksimich.  FTP, what is this novel about Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin, a superfluous man created my Mikhail Lermontov?
This novel begins with one narrator leaving Tifis for the mountains.  
A Hero of Our Time or Geroi nashego vremeni