—Do you believe in the Christmas gnome?—Of course not. How can you believe in someone who doesn't exist? This is a fairy-tale character, just like Little Red Riding Hood or Hansel. Even as a child I didn’t believe in him. Of course, according to tradition, I hung a sock on the fireplace and even in the morning I found a coin in it, but I knew that my parents had put it there, just like a long candy shaped like a staff entwined with ribbons...