For me it’s gotta be “Morte e Vida Severina”/ “Severino Death and Life”. It’s an epic poem narrating the journey of a poor man from Northeastern Brazil, a famously poor and segregated region that’s frequently affected by severe droughts, fleeing from his home and walking to the big city to survive the season. On the way he describes all the misery he experiences and sees.
One stanza that has stuck with me for years goes something like this "And all of us Severinos/With the same lives/Will die of the same/Severe Severino death,/The death died of/Old age before thirty/Of an ambush before twenty/And of hunger day by day/(Of weakness and plague/The Severino death/attacks at all ages/even those not born)
chinese web fiction sphere is popping. Idk if you’re into fantasy, but there’s a chinese web serial called lord of mysteries which weaves together eldritch deities, mysticism based paths to godhood, intricate conspiracies from literally 10s of different factions in a fantasy world… amazingly creative stuff, most interesting fantasy story I’ve read in years. Problem is the english translation is really crude/rough. Probably far easier to get into if you can read the original chinese. Don’t get me wrong fans of web ficiton will put up with crappy prose to get to the brilliance of the underlying world/story but you’ll probably have a better time in the original language.