okay, without looking it up...

[clauclauclaudia]

Does this usage of eponymous seem okay to you or not? Why?

[blah blah Chekhov on film] "Based on his eponymous 1891 novella, THE DUEL gives life to a classic Chekhovian tale...."

All right. Look it up if you want to, but let me know if you do.

I'm screening comments for a bit to get independent answers, but I'll unscreen them soonish. [Edit: slow unscreening now complete.]

Comments

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem right to me. I usually think of that as relating to the personal name of the creator/discoverer, not of a work derived from another work of the same name. As written, this would mean the novella is named "Chekhov", which I don't think is what the writer of the sentence menas to say.