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

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

No. Unless the name of the novella was actually something like Anton Chekhov: International Man of Mystery and the subsequent adaptation retitled as shown. But assuming what they mean here is "his 1981 novella of the same title," that is NOT what eponymous means.

*hearts REM's use of this term, as an aside*

[clauclauclaudia]

I *heart* it too. :)