Bishop Myriel

In His Own Words

By: Alfred Garrotto

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Bishop Myriel: In His Own Words is a fictionalized story of the life and times of the fictional character in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. In the stage/musical version of the novel has been seen and loved by hundreds of millions of people all over the globe. In the musical, Bishop Myriel appears for a few minutes in an early scene He is the catalyst character who sets the paroled and dispirited Jean Valjean on the path of compassion and justice. The bishop does not reappear until Valjean's deathbed scene, and then only as a vision. In Hugo's novel, the bishop is the first to appear. Hugo devotes the first 90 pages of the novel to the life of Myriel. In the novel, Hugo reveals that the bishop started writing a book on Duty but never finished it. The author provides a detailed outline of the book. In Bishop Myriel: In His Own Words, Alfred J. Garrotto writes the book the bishop never finished. Using Hugo's outline and writing in the bishop's own voice, the author "channels" the bishop. In the process, he peers into the life of this holy man who changed Jean Valjean's life and those of the supporting cast of characters.