As I've mentioned I have had difficulties in engaging with the French tradition's reading of Nietzsche. My ambivalence is the way that it has been too centred around Nietzsche's madness.

My gut reaction is that it too centred on a (loose) psychoanalytic approach and on Nietzsche's own psychological struggles and has, as a result, downplayed Nietzsche the philosopher engaging with the philosophical tradition and academic philosophical scholarship. I am far more comfortable with Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche as a metaphyscian engaged with the problematics of nihilism.

With that said we can push on. In the Preface to his Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle Klossowski makes the following insightful remark:

"Because we are reading Nietzsche's texts directly, because we are listening to him speak, can we perhaps make him speak to 'us? Can we ourselves make use of the whisperings, the breathings, the bursts of anger and laughter .... Nietzsche was interroging the near and distant future, a future that has become our everyday reality---and he predicted that this future would be convulsive, to the point where our own convulsions are caricatures of his thought. We will try to comprehend how and in what sense Nietzsche's interrogation describes what we are now living through."