المحاكمة
Characters in المحاكمة
13 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Josef K.
A bank official arrested one morning on unspecified charges, who spends the rest of the novel trying to learn what he is accused of and how to defend himself.
Antagonists
The Court
The vast, opaque legal bureaucracy that has arrested Josef K. and pursues his case through hearings, advocates and offices he can never fully access.
Supporting characters
Leni
Herr Huld's nurse and housekeeper, who takes a romantic interest in K. and in other men Huld represents.
Fräulein Elsa
A waitress Josef K. visits regularly for company; she is mentioned in the novel but never appears directly on the page.
Uncle Karl (The Trial)
Josef K.'s uncle from the country (referred to as Albert later in Kafka's unfinished manuscript), who presses him to engage a lawyer after learning of the trial from his daughter Erna.
Rudi Block
A grain merchant on trial for years, another of Herr Huld's clients, whom Josef K. meets at Huld's apartment.
Fräulein Bürstner
A fellow lodger in Josef K.'s boarding house, in whose room he is first interrogated; he is drawn to her but the relationship never develops.
Herr Huld
A sickly, long-winded advocate engaged by K.'s uncle to defend him, whose actual influence over the court proves doubtful.
Frau Grubach
The landlady of the boarding house where Josef K. rents a room.
Titorelli
A painter with an informal position painting portraits of court officials, who offers Josef K. his own view of how the court's proceedings actually work.
Franz (The Trial)
One of the two warders who arrive at Josef K.'s lodging to arrest him on the morning the novel opens.
Willem (The Trial)
The other of the two warders who arrest Josef K. at his lodging.
Erna (The Trial)
Josef K.'s teenage cousin, Uncle Karl's daughter, whose letter first alerts her father to K.'s trial.