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Krapp’s Last Tape in which the life of Beckett’s fictive character is organized in a mode of the autobiography, recalls Beckett’s life in many respects. Three major biographies written by Bair, Knowlson, Cronin focus on Krapp’s vision as the source to explicate a significant moment in Beckett’s life and present it as the representation of Beckett’s artistic vision of 1946. Each biography’s interpretation of Beckett’s revelation could be compared with the way Beckett constructs the life story in Krapp. Krapp is a rare autobiographical text that Beckett projects his inner struggle as a writer into, yet at the same time he enacts his revelation through the detached (fictive) autobiographical writing. Avoiding the easy identification with Krapp’s vision, he projects into his own one into the inner world of selves spilt in the memory and time with the image of dark and light that could be not resolved at a moment. Considering the notion of failure in Beckett, the biography could be understood as a way to have a glimpse of the real. Even though each biography fails in capturing the real Beckett, it would be a positive failure to reach the life and self changing in time and memory.