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Requiem For A Beast: A Work For Image, Word And Music Hardcover | Pages: 96 pages
Rating: 3.79 | 47 Users | 13 Reviews

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Title:Requiem For A Beast: A Work For Image, Word And Music
Author:Matt Ottley
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 96 pages
Published:2007 by Hachette Australia
Categories:Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Childrens. Picture Books. Young Adult. Cultural. Australia

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A visceral and yet compassionate meditation on Australia's conflicted culture of masculinity, Matt Ottley's 'Requiem for a Beast' is a haunting, gruelling, uncompromising text which demands much more than a superficial reading. Blending genre elements of the graphic novel with a CD recording of a quite astoundingly beautiful mini-Requiem Mass, scored and illustrated by its multi-talented author, 'Requiem for a Beast' is also a multi-layered narrative. It weaves together stories of a boy seeking to validate his own identity in a culture with blinkered notions of the limits of gender roles, a feral bull which is pursued by him into the outback, his battle to alternately sublimate and confront the sins of his father and forefathers and - in the most inspiring sections of all - the impact of all of this on his unconscious. Matt Ottley is a master of both the surreal and the hyper-real. He makes no allowances for lazy readers, but he richly rewards attentive ones, and it is on the third or fourth reading, with fingers inserted in four or five different sections of the text, that most readers are likely to reach "Eureka" moments.

A particularly inspired aspect of the text is Ottley's decision to structure his narrative around four sections of the Latin Requiem Mass, which on the CD is combined with recordings of aboriginal songs and stories in the Bundjalung language. The combination is sometimes jarring, sometimes harmonious - sometimes indeed the melody of the traditional requiem shares the same melody as the indigenous song - just as the horrific antagonism which white settlers have shown to Aboriginal culture has gradually been replaced by ambivalence as we have discovered our common humanity. This deep-seated cultural ambiguity is reflected in the boy's dreams, which blend the popular mythology surrounding bushrangers and the classical myths of the Minotaur and centaurs with narratives about the Stolen Generation. These dream sequences are as troubling and disorientating as real dreams, haunted disturbingly archetypal monsters.

This is certainly not a "children's book", and was never attended to be one. The 'Picture Book of the Year' award is available to texts which appeal to young people up to the age of 18. Teenage readers can and do have profound responses to this text, and the encouragement it offers young people to think about the need to replace toxic masculinity with an honest understanding of self has never been as urgent as it is now. Ultimately, 'Requiem for a Beast' confronts issues such as scapegoating, redemption and the need for courage in a language which is as beautiful as it is compelling. Every Australian bookshelf should carry a well-thumbed copy of this book.

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Original Title: Requiem for a Beast
ISBN: 0734407963 (ISBN13: 9780734407962)
Literary Awards: Children's Book Council of Australia Award for Picture Book of the Year (2008), Queensland Premier's
Literary Awards: for Young Adult Book (2008)

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A moving, intense wonderful book. It looks like a childs book but it is not just for children by any means - in fact it may not be for your child at all. There is a CD with the book with indiginous and classical-type music - I assume composed for the book. The story is confronting and dark. Monster of all shapes inhabit the lives of the characters - some inherited monsters - alluding to dreamtime. do yourself a favour and read this book with the CD playing. It is an experience not to be missed.

Wow!! What an awesome book. The vision of Matt Ottley to create this is astonishing. Definately worth reading with the music playing.

By far one of the best picture books I have ever read. Even though it's graphic at times, it tells a story of redemption, and courage, brought on by a beast.



Original, haunting, a challenging, stimulating read.

Certainly an interesting book - with "image, word and music". The topics covered are pretty intense - the stolen generation, murder, child abuse, a measure of animal cruelty, etc, etc. This book has sparked some controversy after winning the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Picture Book of the Year 2008. The tabloid media (see the Courier Mail article above) have created a media beat-up that this book has been promoted to young children. The CBCA Picture Book of the Year has always

Such a dark and beautiful book. An interesting portrayal of our countrys twisted history - beautifully written and the illustrations are amazing!Feels very fitting to have read this on January 26th.

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