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

[dot_fennel]

That seems totally wrong to me.

Oh, huh. Saying "the eponymous" instead of "his eponymous" would make it a little better. Using it only as a backward reference (rather than, here, putting it before the title) would make it a lot better. But I still don't like the sentence you quoted at all.