The novel I/e_rus.olim by Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis – representatives of Russian- ‐language literature in Israel – is seen by the author of the article as a writing experiment. The work, representing the Liternet, fits into the paradigm – well‐established in Russian‐Israeli literature – of the new cultural realism, which implies the concept of reality treated as a reflection in literature of the network world concept. However, the pair of authors go further – they identify the world at the same time with the network, hypertext, rhizome, simulacra and hyperreality. All the structural and interpretive elements of the novel permeate and complement each other, resulting in a picture of a multidimensional cultural‐historical reality, with its symbols and memories of the past, a reality recognized and “decoded” by the protagonists – repatriates in the difficult process of building a national self‐awareness.