Abstract. Let b be a BM O-function. It is well-known that the linear commutator [b, T ] of a Calderón-Zygmund operator T does not, in general, map continuouslyIn this paper, we find the largest subspace H 1 b (R n ) such that all commutators of Calderón-Zygmund operators are continuous fromWe also study the commutators [b, T ] for T in a class K of sublinear operators containing almost all important operators in harmonic analysis. When T is linear, we prove that there exists a bilinear operators R = R T mapping continuouslywhere S is a bounded bilinear operator fromIn the particular case of T a Calderón-Zygmund operator satisfying T 1 = T * 1 = 0 and b in BM O log (R n )-the generalized BMO type space that has been introduced by Nakai and Yabuta to characterize multipliers of BMO(R n ) -we prove that the commutatorWhen T is sublinear, we prove that there exists a bounded subbilinear operator R = R T :The bilinear decomposition (1) and the subbilinear decomposition (2) allow us to give a general overview of all known weak and strong L 1 -estimates.