New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- The posthumous revelations emerging from the latest tranche of materials linked to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation have reopened one of the most disturbing cultural questions surrounding the disgraced financier: his fixation on Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's canonical novel about obsession, manipulation and sexual abuse.

Released as part of a recent document and image disclosure by House Democrats, the material includes photographs that appear to show passages from Lolita handwritten on a woman's body - a discovery that has unsettled readers for the way it reframes Jeffrey Epstein's long-advertised admiration for the book.

The images, the circumstances of which remain unclear, deepen the scrutiny of Jeffrey Epstein's...