It is a portrait of the vices of our whole generation in their ultimate development.
This work consists of two sections narrated by an unnamed traveller and then three selections from what is ostensibly the title character's journal. In a scathing preface, the author writes that the work "is certainly a portrait, but not of a single person. It is a portrait of the vices of our whole generation in their ultimate development. You will say that no man can be so bad, and I will ask you why, after accepting all the villains of tragedy and romance, you refuse to believe in Pechorin."  FTP, name this 1840 novel by Mikhail Lermontov.
This work consists of two sections narrated by an unnamed traveller and then three selections from what is ostensibly the title character's journal.
A (or The) Hero of Our Time or Geroy nashevo vremeni