What are some good novels about time and the fact that a human life contains a small amount of it?

What are some good novels about time and the fact that a human life contains a small amount of it?

Man fuck charts about life milestones man fuck

The Leopard by Lampidusa touches on this

>I will spend as much time wageslaving away as i have in education
How the fuck did people in the past even livr.

The tartar steppe by dino buzzati

Farms

They weren't wageslaves

>mfw reading this

>halfway through the college age and am not enrolled
when does this feeling of uselessness leave, at least im not a neet anymore

If this was a chart for the average person from the dawn of agriculture to the industrial revolution it would read "Farmworker: 8yo - death"