The three-volume novel The Past of the Elderly by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is an unconventional and complex narrative, the understanding of its structure and content depends on the knowledge and of the narrator and the narratee. The reasons for choosing multiple narrators, along with the overt and covert Narratee, the type of relationship between the Narratee and the narrators, and the reason for this relationship, constitute the focus of the discussion of this article. The article, in a descriptive-analytical manner and mainly based on the views of Gerard Genette and Gerald Prince, explains the position of the narrator and the Narratee in order to understand the knots of the text and open the different layers of the novel. A general understanding of the agency of this complementary narrative pair in the novel makes it clear that the third-person narrator of the novel is the first person who narrates with the third-person narrative and has projected his awareness and interpretation into the narrative of different narrators. The final result shows that the narrative in each of the three volumes of the novel is three different narrative forms of a single autobiography; The unity of the narrator, the Narratee, and the main character of the novel shows that a single narrative of the life of the main character and three generations of a family, in three different narrative forms, in three time periods, has structured the novel, and a new form of confessional autobiographical novel has been created in the native style.