leitmotif
(en)
a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation
We can find this contributive factor and its disturbing existential impact illustrated in countless places in the works of Wallace, Eggers and Foer, often as a leitmotiv, as a quest for meaning.
referring to modernity-imposed conditions of doubt and a general inability to rely on authority
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