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

doesn't sit right with me

[totient]

Unless the novella was called "Chekhov", this reads as wrong to me. "Eponymous ... novella" expands to "... novella of the same name", but with an implied reference to "his", not to some noun phrase in an entirely different clause.