Block the corn merchant

Rudi Block the corn merchant appears in Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial. He is a "small, scrawny man with a beard" (Block the corn merchant, 9%). K. calls him the "skinny little man" (Block the corn merchant, 9%) and the "little corn merchant" (Block the corn merchant, 18%). Leni considers Block to be "a sad case" (14%). She also considers him to be "a terrible chatterbox" and a liar. Nevertheless, she also calls him "an important client of the lawyer" (Block the corn merchant, 18%). Block has been Huld's client "for twenty years" (Block the corn merchant, 23%). 

K. first treats Block condescendingly and takes him for Leni's lover, which Block denies (Block the corn merchant, 9%). Later it turns out that Huld only receives the merchant when "he’s in the mood". This can take several days, and in order not to miss the moment of being let in to see Huld, Leni allows him to wait in the maid's r...